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Neutrality is no answer for the bullied child

Mon, 09/26/2011 - 19:32 — Dave Culver
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Gender & Sexuality
Youth & Education

  • History has shown that so-called neutral  bystanders not only to be cowards but also to be partly responsible for lives that are lost and ruined in events like the Holocaust, slavery, apartheid.
  • Anoka-Hennepin School District (MN) sued over bullying
  • Allow my transgender son to use a safe restroom at school!

Jamie Nabozny, Minneapolis Star Tribune | MN

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Ask your school district what it's doing to protect those perceived as different.

Somewhere in Minnesota, a young boy has started kindergarten.

He went to school with the same excitement and fears that all kids have entering school for the first time. He may already have realized (or quickly will realize) that he's not like the other boys.

Sometimes it's not until they start calling him names and bullying him that he figures it out. Either way, this young boy, like so many others, will not have an easy time in school.

He will go through years of harassment and abuse because he doesn't act like a boy is suppose to act. This boy never wanted to be different. He never wanted to have people call him names.

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Related:

Anoka-Hennepin School District (MN) sued over bullying, Kelly Smith, Minneapolis Star Tribune | MN

  • Rights groups charge that the district didn't do enough to stop it.
  • Minnesota schools ban “gay”

Allow my transgender son to use a safe restroom at school! Tommy Theollyn, Change.org
I ask you to join me in asserting the right for all children to attend school and access school services safely and appropriately.

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