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In reply to the discussion: School Encourages Homophobic Humiliation as Student Punishment [View all]burrowowl
(17,632 posts)57. My God! Thanks for the posts!
Was this the late fifties?
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And people wonder why LGBT youth kill themselves or suffer from low self-esteem....
Swede Atlanta
Dec 2012
#4
If those teens end up committing homophobic violence, the school should be sued for helping cause it
Ken Burch
Dec 2012
#5
I'm a closet bully because I don't see a problem with this discipline?
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#21
I have master's in education, and though I wouldn't necessarily have seen this as wrong in younger
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#54
Shaking hands is a normal, socially accepted, often expected, ritual. So, I don't
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#63
No, more of a closet homophobe, because you consider this punsihment appropritae...
joeybee12
Dec 2012
#42
Two teacher supporters on that thread that constantly critique the President for school reform.....
msanthrope
Dec 2012
#15
What does the privatization-friendly, teacher-bashing school reform moverment
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#53
Perhaps teachers who are homophobic need reform. They sure as shit don't need tenure
msanthrope
Dec 2012
#60
Tenure does not stop teachers from being fired. It protects them from indiscriminate firing.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#62
Apparently this was the principal's decision. The school district admin condemned it.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#17
If that principal is so damn clueless about what would happen, then that's a perfectly good
progree
Dec 2012
#31
The issue isn't the two boys holding hands as punishment - if it were done in private
progree
Dec 2012
#19
If you let the other students call them queer and faggot and other homosexual taunts
progree
Dec 2012
#28
"I posted this same story last week and not one reply said anything about homophobia." I did. nt
progree
Dec 2012
#24
Well this thread is different. Sorry about that. If you think having students being called
progree
Dec 2012
#26
Some context: religious right fighting anti-bullying policies that involve bullying homosexuals
progree
Dec 2012
#23
Yet again, putting "paid" to the lie, 'nobody cares what you do in the bedroom'
closeupready
Dec 2012
#52