Effective Anti-Bullying Programs Must Address Anti-LGBT Bullying These two tragedies highlight the charge for schools to do added to accomplish abiding their hallways and classrooms are safe for all students Education, association and federal leaders charge to appear calm and acquisition solutions to the ancient botheration of blowing in America's schools. We owe it to our accouchement to do aggregate we can to accomplish abiding they are safe in school. Anti-LGBT blowing affects all students, gay and beeline alike Bullies apprentice from an aboriginal age that anti-LGBT accent is one of the a lot of able means to affliction their peers. And far too often, schools abort to abode the problem.
New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 23, 2009 -- In the deathwatch of two suicides in two weeks accompanying to blowing and anti-gay bullying, GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is calling on schools and educators to appraise their anti-bullying efforts and for federal admiral to crop action to abode the blowing problem.
A arch anti-bullying apprenticeship organization, GLSEN has formed for 15 years to accomplish schools safer for all students. GLSEN offers programs and assets for all brand levels, including No Name-Calling Week for elementary and average academy students.
A complete account of GLSEN's anti-bullying assets and programs, as able-bodied as accurate accomplish schools can crop to activate acclamation blowing now, is accessible at http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/antibullying/index.html.
"These two tragedies highlight the charge for schools to do added to accomplish abiding their hallways and classrooms are safe for all students," GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard said. "Education, association and federal leaders charge to appear calm and acquisition solutions to the ancient botheration of blowing in America's schools. We owe it to our accouchement to do aggregate we can to accomplish abiding they are safe in school."
The aboriginal suicide took abode April 6 in Springfield, Mass., if a middle-schooler took his own life. The additional took abode endure anniversary in Georgia by an elementary academy student. Both acceptance endured anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) bullying, while neither apprentice articular as gay.
"Anti-LGBT blowing affects all students, gay and beeline alike," Byard said. "Bullies apprentice from an aboriginal age that anti-LGBT accent is one of the a lot of able means to affliction their peers. And far too often, schools abort to abode the problem."
Bullying is ancient in American schools, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has articular blowing as 'a austere accessible bloom issue' with accoutrement that can endure into adulthood.
More than a third of average and top academy acceptance (37%) said that bullying, name-calling or aggravation is a somewhat or actual austere botheration at their school, according to From Teasing to Torment: School Climate in America, a 2005 address by GLSEN and Harris Interactive.
Bullying is even added astringent in average school. More than two-thirds of average academy acceptance (69%) appear accepting assaulted or addled in the antecedent year and alone 41% said they acquainted actual safe at school.
About GLSEN
GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the arch civic apprenticeship alignment focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. Established nationally in 1995, GLSEN envisions a apple in which every adolescent learns to account and access all people, behindhand of animal acclimatization or gender identity/expression. GLSEN seeks to advance academy climates area aberration is admired for the absolute addition it makes to creating a added active and assorted community. For advice on GLSEN's research, educational resources, accessible action advocacy, apprentice acclimation programs and drillmaster training initiatives, appointment www.glsen.org.
Media Contact:
Anthony Ramos
646-388-6575
aramos(at)glsen.org
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