This is one of the many reasons parents are running to private schools for their children's education. It isn't homo phobia as the gays would assert. It's the simple fact that many do not agree that gay is a mainstream focus of education. In this instance we have less than 10% of the population waging the education curriculum. School yard bullying is not based on homo phobia. That is a political spin to excite emotions calling for our children's protection. We need to teach Gay 101 for our children's protection? My daughter was bullied at school and is not gay. Where was the straight 101 class for child protection?

Without dismissing your daughter's experience aqvarivs, you don't seem to have much idea of what bullying is either. Recently you dismissed someone else's claims about bullying by saying it's "Just immature kids trying to look cool in front of their friends." http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=5678#75790

If your daughter really was bullied, then her school has a serious problem, not least with parents who downplay the lasting effects of bullying. If I were her father, I'd be banging on the school doors insisting that they get some proper anti-bullying programs together, rather than lurking around here airing ill-formed opinions.

Sorry. I forgot. Only self righteous snits need to post here. Everyone elses opinion or experience is valueless unless it has passed the "jpw2040 filter of I know best".
That link is to my own personal experience. I was mature enough then to see what that type of behavior truly was and never carried it around or let it influence my life. As for running to teacher to fix my problems no thank you. I gave my children anti-bulling education and behavior techniques to use in response if it happened again. It didn't include sexual identity or the mating habits of the young and gay. My children's sex education came before they first went off to school and at various times as they matured. I don't know how old you are but, to folks of my generation gay is nothing special. Big whup! Your gay. Now what? Get over yourself.

Thanks aqvarivs, I had a laugh.

Particularly humorous is your apparent belief that your “own personal experience” should determine how “bulling” (as you so amusingly put it) is defined for the rest of the world.

Hilariously, at the same time as you were belittling the “jpw2040 filter”, you were also demonstrating that the aqvarivs world view is extremely dodgy. A few kids throwing stones over a schoolyard fence is not “bulling”, and the sexual practices of adults have nothing to do with protecting minors from bullying. How any of this is connected with your children’s sex education is beyond me but, hey, thanks for sharing. I’m sure they got a laugh too.

I feel confident you have a bright, if distant, future in stand-up. Keep working at it.

The thing with you jpw2040, is you want gay to be recognized as something special. Probably a good 80% of the population today grew up with gay day and gay parade day, the rest are too old to care. Gay is just so ho hum. It's pedestrian. Nobody cares. Shout it from the roof tops and nary a soul will bat an eye. It's an non issue. The tiny minority of truly gay children will hardly all be recognised as gay. It's more like some straight kid will catch the label in the school yard for not following the herd. Hardly reason enough to set up a curriculum to teach children that maybe 10% of the population are gay and deserve special recognition and treatment. I taught my children gay as a part of human sexuality. What is it you want? Teach Gay as a life choice?

This is all too simple.

No focus groups or projects or task forces or reference group or blurring of the lines between what is normal and abnormal will change reality.

We should teach children that homosexuality is abnormal.

We should teach chldren to be tolerant of the abnormal.