From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" 

Modern schools, modern problems.

Racial discrimination is not as "acceptable" as it used to be;
discrimination against Gay people is still at a very high level.

Even in the middle of L.A.; in the middle of Hollywood and West Hollywood.

Brutal attacks on the streets, at night, in neighborhoods -- often by
insecure, homophobic high school students from Fairfax High School and
Hollywood High. (This has improved a little since some of the counseling
based and respect based programs have been instituted there -- programs
which the Reverend Sheldon wants removed; "God hates Gays.")

gs



"Randall Parker"  wrote in message
news:MPG.13af17ec21091d6c98a6bd{at}news.barkto.com...
> Steve,
>
> Here's an excerpt:
>
 Area, 32 percent of the male respondents said they had verbally
> threatened homosexuals, and 18 percent said they had threatened or
> physically assaulted them, according to Teacher Magazine.
> The publication also cited a study conducted by students in Des
> Moines, Iowa, who, after recording hallway conversations at five area
> high schools, concluded that the average student heard about 25 anti-gay
> remarks every day. >>
>
> Are these figures realistic? Think back everyone to your own time in high
> school and see if this sounds typical or unusual.
>
> This is way different than what I saw growing up. There were two kids in
> my grade school that were thought to be gay. But while a few kids made
> comments about them on rare occasions it really was rare. In high school
> we had two teachers who were openly gay. I had one as an English teacher.
> I don't recall anyone giving him a hard time about it and in fact he was
> fairly well liked.
>
> At UC Santa Barbara I never heard of gay or lesbian students getting
> picked on. Maybe its just that U. I mean, you are supposed to be mellow
> as all get out if you go there.
>
> By contrast, racial beatings were not unheard of where I went to high
> school. Mostly it was blacks beating up on whites even though the whites
> were the majority. That to me was the scariest part of high school until
> about my mid Junior year when I got to know the kinds of people whose
> friendships automatically afforded a person a considerable degree of
> protection.
>
3945603E.83997715{at}pacbell.net>, sdurrett{at}pacbell.net says...
> > An interesting tale from today's SF Chronicle: "Emerging
From a Secret:
> > Taunts and internal conflict pushed student to the brink".
> >
> >
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/12
/MN79880.DTL
> >
> >

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