Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Citizens In GA and DeKalb Do Not Need To Forget What Happened To Jaheem

Despite recent strides towards preventing bullying in schools and increased awareness programs, a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network study showed that 65 percent of teens are bullied each year and most believe adults cannot help them. Let us not forget in DeKalb what happen to Jaheem. His mother and friends saw that Jaheem was being bulling constantly by being called gay, ugly and "the virgin" because he was from the Virgin Islands. Now being called gay and a virgin both had to do with his sexuality. However being told your ugly is being bullied under any circumstance in my opinion and there is no place for this type of language to another child in our public schools. Our children should be safe in our public school from such abuse.

Our educational programs need to include education programs about the harm that can be done by teasing someone about sexuality or perceived sexuality to be affective in helping to stop the teasing and bulling. “Anti-gay” language is sometimes the ultimate weapon for bullies to use when they want to degrade his or her peers normally. Any affective plan of response to stop bulling in DeKalb County must take on the task of trying to stop the “anti-gay” language.

Regardless of religious background, regardless of where you live or who you are we must teach our children to respect all human beings. Each human being deserves that respect.

2 comments:

  1. I reported being bullied by a coworker to Thedford and she gave him teacher of the month next day. Many of the teachers who attend so-called churches abhor gay students. Gay teachers hide their sexuality and don't speak up in defense of the people being bullied. It is frightening to be a student or worker in Georgia's schools.

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  2. Every person has the right to feel save in our public schools.

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