Obama administration campaign takes on anti-gay bullying in school

[Scurrilous]

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"The Obama administration is launching a campaign to prevent anti-gay bullying and other harassment at school, advising educators that federal law protects students from many forms of discrimination.

The advisory from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, to be made public Tuesday, does not break new legal ground, officials said. But the officials described it as the federal government's most comprehensive guidance to date on how civil rights law applies to the sort of campus situations that in some cases have led persecuted students to commit suicide. President Obama is expected to help promote the initiative.

"We've got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage," Obama said in a video posted last week on the White House Web site.

"Our goal here is to provide school districts, colleges and universities with details about when harassment can rise to the level of a civil rights violation and what they should be doing about it," Russlynn H. Ali, assistant education secretary for civil rights, said Monday. Ali wrote the advisory."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/25/AR2010102506037.html

[nofurylike]

1. K&R! thank you for posting that, Scurrilous! great to hear! nt

[jaxx]

2. I'm glad to see this.

No more will the onlookers be able to say they didn't know what was happening....while they watched a kid be tormented.

K&R

[MineralMan]

3. I saw that in this morning's paper, too.

I hope this will help turn things around and get school administrators and school boards to take notice. One school here in the Twin Cities has just strengthened their policies on bullying.

[cbdo2007]

4. This should go for all bullying, not just anti-gay bullying.

[EFerrari]

5. White House threatens gay orgs before key DADT meeting - don't mention DADT cases or meeting over

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9390591

Nice modeling there, guys.