Politics: One Town's War on Gay TeensI read this article yesterday, which is perhaps the most comprehensive article about what's been happening in the Anoka-Hennepin school district I've read so far
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all of this, but ESPECIALLY the last two paragraphs. its so incredibly true. i see so many kids on tumblr who are just entering high school who are already so down, and depressed and just ready to be done with it and i just want them to know so much that it really, REALLY does get better. but everyone around them makes it so hard to believe, that hearing just one voice isn't enough. they have to hear a LOT of voices telling them that it really does get better, and you really can make it through.
I think the It Gets Better project is great, have you heard of it?
The thing is, high school is long and hard, and when you're getting put down every. single. day. I don't think it's enough to say that it'll get better. Someone needs to step in and actively help to make things bearable.
I think my main concern when it comes to my daughters is that they'll be bullied in school. I've honestly thought of home-schooling if only to keep them from that, but I know that the home-schooling itself might bring its own set of bullies
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That is just crap. I JUST watched this (totally after school special type) ABC family movie called Cyberbully that was about this, though they didn't touch on the gay subject, it was a straight girl. But still. It's insane.
We tell them that it gets better. Hang on, you'll graduate, it will get better. The problem is, I think that the people who say that forget how our sense of time changes from that age to ours. Four years? I can do that standing on my head, but back then, well a year was a full 14th of my life, and more like a 12th or 11th of what I could remember. A year was an eternity in practice, even if I knew intellectually that it would pass. A day was so much longer then...
Everyone should be loved and accepted for who they are. Period. The end.
I have a tough time understanding how anyone can feel that being gay is "contagious" without having been tempted themselves. How do they think it works? Fairy dust
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The thing is, high school is long and hard, and when you're getting put down every. single. day. I don't think it's enough to say that it'll get better. Someone needs to step in and actively help to make things bearable.
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Everyone should be loved and accepted for who they are. Period. The end.
I have a tough time understanding how anyone can feel that being gay is "contagious" without having been tempted themselves. How do they think it works? Fairy dust ( ... )
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