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发帖数: 19713 | 1 By Lucas Grindley
SETH WALSH X390
Seth Walsh
A 13-year-old boy's suicide last year prompted lawmakers in California to
pass a law on Friday that orders schools to stop looking the other way on
bullying of students for their sexual orientation.
The passage of AB 9, or "Seth's Law" after young Seth Walsh, means public
schools are required to create policies for addressing incidents of bullying
. They are also required to state explicitly that discrimination based on
sexual orientation is not allowed.
The law passed through the state Senate on Friday and had already been
approved by the state Assembly in June, so it now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown
for his signature.
Walsh, a 13-year-old from Tehachapi, Calif., was part of what seemed like a
wave of suicides in 2010. Students widely acknowledged that he had been
bullied for a long time for being gay, and the federal government
investigated the school for a lack of response. His death helped prompt a
national outcry for greater protections against bullying.
Wendy Walsh, Seth's mother, testified before the Senate Education Committee
in support of the bill.
"I can't bring my son back," she told lawmakers. "But the California
legislature can make a difference today to protect young people across our
state just like Seth who are or are thought to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or
transgender. Schools need to take harassment and bullying seriously when
parents or students tell them about it, and when they see it and hear it on
the school campus." | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 2 I believe Jerry Brown will sign the bill into law as soon as next Monday if
there is no further hurdle. | m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 3 周一不是公假吗？
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【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: I believe Jerry Brown will sign the bill into law as soon as next Monday if
: there is no further hurdle.
| D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 4 I forgot :-(
【在 m******1 的大作中提到】
: 周一不是公假吗？
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| m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 5 http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/09/04/thousands-of-primary-schoo
Thousands of primary school aged children have been labelled as homophobic
by their teachers in the past year, information released under the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Act has revealed.
The Manifesto Club, requested the information after media reports last year
of childrens’ permanent educational records including references to alleged
homophobic bullying.
The FOI reveals that 20,400 primary school children were labelled as
homophobic or racist during the past academic year, the youngest child being
just four years old.
One alleged homophobic incident at a school in the London borough of Barnet
showed that two year four children (aged eight or nine) argued over an
eraser and called each other “gay” and “lesbian”.
More than one in every hundred primary school pupils in Leeds and Birmingham
were reported for hate speech. Some local authorities even recorded
incidents with children at nursery schools.
“There’s no doubting that children say some really nasty and horrible
things, but this approach is squeezing the meaning out of childhood,”
Adrian Hart of the Manifesto Club told the Sunday Times. “Children are
seldom, if ever, homophobic or racist in the way this approach imagines.
Children simply access words they hear around them and re-deploy them, often
without understanding their meaning.” |
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