Teaching Tolerance NEEDS to hear from YOU!

LGBT, NewsBites — By Speak Equal on June 9, 2010 at 8:30 am

Teaching Tolerance’s new documentary, Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case that Made History, shows how one bullied student stood up to his tormentors.

The Teaching Tolerance is a program run by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and works to foster school environments that are inclusive and nurturing – classrooms where equality and justice are not just taught, but lived. The program points to the future, helping teachers prepare a new generation to live in a diverse world.

Teaching Tolerance would like to hear about instances of anti-gay harassment and violence that you’ve witnessed. They plan to use the stories with the documentary to highlight the severity of this still widely ignored problem.

Please email your story to editor@teachingtolerance.org. Type in the email itself with no attachments and put “Anti-Gay Harassment” in the subject field. Also, be sure to include your name, phone number and other contact information.

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  • Henrysmomaafaou

    Teaching tolerance extends to disabled persons, ya know. See you tube video u201cTeaching Next Generation to Know Autismu201d An excellent example of how we can teach children how to embrace and help citizens among us who are vulnerable to discrimination, neglect or apathy. Keep in mind the disabled who are NON verbal, are one of the most vulnerable of special populations. They canu2019t speak for themselves. They canu2019t even tell us theyu2019re bullied. At least a gay person with a voice can speak up, if trained to defend himself/herself. So, letu2019s think about this. Letu2019s include the most fragile among us in the letu2019s tolerate and embrace differences group. Last week, the mother in this video was told by a woman in public that u201cyou shouldnu2019t bring people like this out in public.u201d (I know this from private message to her on youtube). This is probably why she is so assertive in defending her son and bringing awareness to his cause. I canu2019t even imagine how many times sheu2019s experienced this. It must be hard. Yet, in combing the tolerance and diverstiy sites I see little to NOTHING about disabled persons. And the need to speak up for their rights.rn

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