I watched "Q and A," last night and learned
for the first time about something called the
"Safe Schools," program.

Apparently approx. 500 schools have already
opted to include this program into their
curriculum. With 15,000 teachers choosing to
utilise their training and tools to support
same-sex attracted, inter sex and gender driven
students, their families and peers.

The general consensus
seems to be that all students,
staff and families deserve to feel safe, included,
and valued at school.

The feeling is that this
program ensures the well being of all school
students and gives them equal access to education.
The hope is that through education - there will
be more tolerance amongst students. The stats of
suicide will decrease - and bullying will also
decrease.

What are your thoughts on this issue?

http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au

The small part of Q&A I watched again highlighted how bigotted and rude Tony Jones, the abc and the homosexual lobby are. The constant interuptions to Mr Shelton while allowing the regressives free reign to sprout their bigotry was the order of the day. Why should we be surprised when the national broadcaster has been hijacked by social engineers and bullies. The ignorant/gullible getup crowd aslo seemed well over represented.

Bullies do so because they are violent and feel the need to bully.

If they fail to find their easiest victims on the grounds of sexual orientation, then they will find their victims on other grounds or otherwise completely at random.

So while same-sex-attracted and inter-sex students may feel safer, this means that the probability for heterosexual students at those schools to be bullied, is increased, making them less safe.

The Safe School Program - is a learning environment that
is safe, respectful, caring, and supportive. Safe
Schools share their commitment to developing such learning
environments and explain the steps they are taking to
achieve them such as parent and teacher involvement.
Core values and beliefs are clearly communicated.
These include the importance of diversity and difference.

Safe Schools describe how these core values are taught to
students and the actions they are taking to ensure the
acceptance of diversity and difference across the school.

Their entire ethos is to generate respect, belonging,
and collaboration throughout schools.
Their aim is to correct ignorance and get rid of
bullying.

I suggest that you find out more about the program
and what it is about, before condemning it - not knowing
what it involves.

Hey runner can you tell us what bigotry is?
Because I dont think you know.

Foxy:
Does the safe schools program adhere to anti-discrimination principles or is it exempt from them because when you have special programs for only one type of bullying then you are discriminating against all those kids who are bullied for other reasons.

How can you tell when someone is being bullied because of their sexuality or because they are just not very nice people and indulge in aggression and bullying themselves?

What has suicide got to do with it? Just because the highest number of suicides happen to occur in kids with sexual issues does not mean that the cause of the suicide is bullying. It could well be the sexual issues that make them want to commit suicide.