Schools to be sent DVD on homophobic bullying - from Pink News - all the latest gay news from the gay community - Pink News

should we start something similar here?

But if people stop bullying homosexuals, then they might have happy, self-actualised, confident lives, with high self-esteem. We can't be having that, like.

Bullying is rife in schools and very little is done about it. Children need to be encouraged to speak up more about it. I've known people who've had their lives near- ruined from being bullied as children.

That said:

"When on tour I would ask the kids how many people thought homosexuality was wrong. In every single school the vast majority, about 80 per cent, would put their hands up. But kids would come up after the performance and say quite openly 'I walked into this room homophobic and will leave it a changed person."

This seems to imply that a conscientious or religious objection to homosexuality is in some way a form of bullying Children should not be allowed to taunt or bully their schoolmates but this goes way too far and is actually a form of bullying in itself.

What definitely shouldn't be done is to focus on bullying solely related to sexual orientation as seems to be the case here.

I haven't read the article, but presumed the information pack was meant to be incorporated into a multi-faceted approach to bullying. Is this not the case?

Sure it'd be the end of the Irish educational system. Once they get that in, it'd cats and dogs having sex, babies roasted over coals for tea and the ultimate horror of the non-denominational school....

Yes but as part of an entire bullying package i think.

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Earlier this decade I was handing out leaflets letting parents know about a new ET school starting in the area at a large family festival in a public park and that precisely the reaction I got from some. Parents my own age reacted as though I was suggesting selling their children into slavery and refused to touch the satanic leaflet. A few short years later the school is probably one of the most popular in the district.

Anyway you'll be pleased to hear that such schools do have anti-bullying programmes which cover homosexuality as well as everything else.

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Suprises me not at all. I remember last year somebody (who didn't know me that well) mentioning the fact that their child attended such a school to me, in a way that could only parallel an artist saying to a muslim aquaintance 'I've made these sketches of your prophet....'. I gathered that it was frowned on 'down home'.

of course, I was merely highlighting an example of what could be done.