Quote:
Originally Posted by Dez
I've heard a lot of that stuff in health class. I've watched videos where people have been bullied because of their sexuality and the teachers and principals have told them to act "less gay" and never even punished the bullies. Some of these cases have even been brought to court. It's ridiculous. You shouldn't have to mask who you are just to prevent being bullied. Teachers and administration should actually uphold their zero-tolerance bullying policy and defend the rights of the bullied. I don't know about your schools, but in my student handbook it says that you won't be discriminated against based on sexuality, race, gender, etc, and what the teachers are doing is discriminating.
|
Are you aware of the fact the term, "gay" has definitions other than sexuality, such as weak, acting stupid, overly happy and so forth? I doubt the teachers would be brought to court over this because the defense is pathetically easy: they meant the alternative definitions I listed but the kids had a poor vocabulary so they got saddened even more and ran home to mommy and daddy.
In order for the teachers to discriminate, they have to intentionally favour "non-gay" students while rejecting "gay" students. The article makes no reference to any favouritism and it indicates the students knew the teachers were at their wits end trying to help but didn't know what to do. There's no discrimination in any of that, you're just tossing around a buzz-word because heaven forbid, a teacher uses the word, "gay" in reference to a student.
If the teacher was discriminating, he/she would have to do something like this:
Timmy: Ms. Hotbottom, Danny is bullying me
Ms. Hotbottom: Shut the fuck up, he has every right in the world to bully you as you have the gay condition.
Class: *Laughter*
Ms. Hotbottom: OK class, who can tell me what the answer is to your quiz question? Timmy put your hand down, we all know where it's been and we don't need you infecting the air we breath. You know what, fuck you Timmy, get out of class and go see the principal.
Timmy: Why?
Ms.Hotbottom: BECAUSE YOU'RE A GAY COCK-SUCKER!!! For all we know, you could've raped Danny and that's why he's kicking you in the dick. This also means you failed the term test because you'll be in the principal's office while the rest of the class is writing it.
^^ That would be discriminating in a hilarious way.