Today is Day of Silence, an event organized by GLSEN nationwide. According to GLSEN, “On the National Day of Silence hundreds of thousands of students nationwide take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in their schools.”
More information about Day of Silence can be found here: http://www.dayofsilence.org
This year, the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition purchased 150 t-shirts to distribute to gay-straight alliances, student groups, and community groups across the state. We are proud to report that the t-shirts went fast! Every year, participation in Day of Silence is growing in Mississippi. If we are missing your group or school, email us at info@mssafeschools.org.
Next year, let’s make Day of Silence an even bigger success for Mississippi! Thank you to the following schools/organizations that have representatives participating in Day of Silence in 2010:
- USM GSA
- Spectrum (MSU)
- MUW
- Ole Miss GSA
- Millsaps
- Alcorn
- JCJC
- Wesson HS
- Oxford HS
- MSMS GSA
- Batesville HS
- Hattiesburg HS GSA
- Jim Hill HS
- Eta Episilon Gamma Sorority Inc.
Because of a rumor started by another student to cover his A** I spent my senior year being gossiped about and bullied.I was even sexually harassed by 2 teachers and told that if I pressed charges I would not graduate when I told the principal. I found out about the rumor about 5 years after graduating. Way too long to do anything about it. I am still angry that teachers and staff believed it and allowed the abuse. I came to terms with it when I minored in psychology in college. But it still does not excuse adults and small town bias. The kids learn social behaviorfrom the adults around them and it’s sad that they will be the adults of the future. Such little abusive monsters and the parents are no better.Today I am able to halp the abused and hope to see the tide turn with better educated school staff. But having grown up in the South and reading of things like this I know that area will be the last to become educated and considerate.
God help those with accepted social differences because the general population won’t!
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