Post by Armand Tanzarian on Jul 26, 2011 8:45:12 GMT -5
motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/michele-bachmann-teen-suicide
gawker.com/5824694/michele-bachmann-has-no-comment-on-the-teen-suicide-epidemic-in-her-own-backyard
In a single school district, 9 teenage suicide have been recorded over the last 2 years, several others unsuccessfully. The district is identified as "suicide contagion" by the government. Most of the suicides were gay or harassed as one. The school has an "interesting" policy when it comes to homosexuality"...
The policy, until now, still consists on silence on the issues of LGBT, confounding teachers on how to deal with the issue of homosexuality in general and bullying of LGBT youth in particular.
Where this ties into politics; This is Bachmann's turf. Her and her husband's homophobia are well documented already, but crucially she has also voted against anti-bullying legislation. And she started out in the school districts too, overseeing the same policies that lead to the disastrous homophobia in those schools.
The whole Mother Jones article is a chilling read, not because the issue has been ignored; it hasn't, and the result is a war between the people who want to change the "no homo promo" and the 'Family Council' idiots. This next paragraph illustrates, in no uncertain terms, how the kind of rhetoric those dicks throw around like fucking salad have severe consequence on the lives of the children in that district.
gawker.com/5824694/michele-bachmann-has-no-comment-on-the-teen-suicide-epidemic-in-her-own-backyard
In a single school district, 9 teenage suicide have been recorded over the last 2 years, several others unsuccessfully. The district is identified as "suicide contagion" by the government. Most of the suicides were gay or harassed as one. The school has an "interesting" policy when it comes to homosexuality"...
At least four of the suicides involved kids known or at least perceived by their peers to be LGBT. Since January, seven of Fietek's students at Anoka Middle School have been hospitalized for attempting or threatening suicide. [...]
Anoka-Hennepin has a policy on the books known colloquially as "no homo promo," which dates in back to the mid-1990s. Back then, after several emotional school board meetings, the district essentially wiped gay people out of the school health curriculum. There could be no discussion of homosexuality, even with regard to HIV and AIDS, and the school board adopted a formal policy that stated school employees could not teach that homosexuality was a "normal, valid lifestyle."
Anoka-Hennepin has a policy on the books known colloquially as "no homo promo," which dates in back to the mid-1990s. Back then, after several emotional school board meetings, the district essentially wiped gay people out of the school health curriculum. There could be no discussion of homosexuality, even with regard to HIV and AIDS, and the school board adopted a formal policy that stated school employees could not teach that homosexuality was a "normal, valid lifestyle."
The policy, until now, still consists on silence on the issues of LGBT, confounding teachers on how to deal with the issue of homosexuality in general and bullying of LGBT youth in particular.
Where this ties into politics; This is Bachmann's turf. Her and her husband's homophobia are well documented already, but crucially she has also voted against anti-bullying legislation. And she started out in the school districts too, overseeing the same policies that lead to the disastrous homophobia in those schools.
"I think for all us our experience in public schools is there have always been bullies, always have been, always will be. I just don't know how we're ever going to get to point of zero tolerance and what does it mean?...What will be our definition of bullying? Will it get to the point where we are completely stifling free speech and expression? ... Will we be expecting boys to be girls?" -Bachmann
The whole Mother Jones article is a chilling read, not because the issue has been ignored; it hasn't, and the result is a war between the people who want to change the "no homo promo" and the 'Family Council' idiots. This next paragraph illustrates, in no uncertain terms, how the kind of rhetoric those dicks throw around like fucking salad have severe consequence on the lives of the children in that district.
Fifteen-year-old Justin Aaberg appears to have been one of the targets of this initiative. One day last year Justin came home and told his mom, Tammy, that another student had told him he would to go to hell because he was gay. "That did something to his brain," she says. He hanged himself in his bedroom last summer. Only after his suicide did Tammy learn that the Parents Action League had reportedly worked with area churches to hand out T-shirts promoting the "Day of Truth" to students at his high school (which is also Bachmann's alma mater). The students were also instructed to "preach to the gay kids," Aaberg says. (No one from the Parents Action League responded to a request for comment.)
the fuckers so bad! that is the biggest shit stain of a policy i have ever seen... I hope they DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE!
