good idea technick, why don't they do that?

have a think about who the bullies are ... usually football team, usually the biggest revenue generator for the school. popular kids, attractive kids, rich kids etc ... all 'valuable' to a school community.

I can't believe, as a human being - nothing to do with your sexuality - that you think its better for kids to drop out of school or be beaten up than it is to give them an opportunity to learn somewhere they would be nurtured ...

If there was a school for fat kids - what would be the weight cut off? 10 pounds overweight? 20 pounds overweight? There are already schools for black kids, even if they aren't officially labelled as so ... There are schools for kids who are good at music, computers, chess etc ... there are schools for kids with learning disabilities ... there are schools for kids with down syndrome and schools for kids who are deaf.

How is a gay school different from a chess club or a sporting team where people with similar interests get together to learn about and live life?

People group together based on their interests in life - it happens as adults so what's wrong with it happening as a teenager?

What about san francisco or oxford st sydney? Gay people live, work and play in segretated communities all the time ...

THAT'S LIFE! Not being forced to do something that is harmful to your life or counter productive to your happiness.

You seem to WANT people to be put through hell just to prove some stupid point about everyone being the same ....

newsflash - we aren't all the same ... [/b][/quote]
I'm also surpised to hear gay people say these kids should be forced to conform to a more "normal" standard of American education... no one said they cant choose to go to the regular schools did they?

I read this thread.

Started responding 5 times...

Stopped....

Them thought "No, fuck it".

I'm in the smallest of the minority groups...

A WHAMWASH ......



















White Heterosexual Male With A Sense Of Humor.

We quite successfully segregate ourselves.

Enuf said.

:ph34r:

My thoughts exactly. [/b][/quote]
oooh lesbian schools. with gym class, and maybe dodgeballl.

*pops in to wave hello to Technick!*

How the hell are you? Great to see you here BTW! :bwave:








....sneaking out the back door and not touching this conversation....

This is now , officially , the gayest thread , ever! :)


;-)))

and the really gay ones wrestled, or were cheerleaders

:lol: :ph34r: :ph34r: :lol:

hell id fuck a snake if ya held it ;)

let me post this while I wait for cj to be thrown off her high horse....



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What about Anthony!!!! ;-)) [/b][/quote]
Anthony's gay? :biglaugh:

As parents say they want more done to protect children for school bullies, Haley Birks from County Durham tells how setting up her own anti-bullying project helped turn the bullies away.

"One day I just got sick of it, being ignored and that, and they'd been really nasty calling me names," says Haley, 15.

"I couldn't put a brave face on it any more, so I told a teacher and then it got worse because they thought I'd grassed them up.

"I was spat on, I had chewing gum put in my hair, letters were passed round the class about me, they used to sit outside my house in the evenings because they live nearby.

When the bullies realised I wasn't bothered any more, they eased off

Haley Birks
"It was really intimidating, I didn't want to go to school, I didn't want to go out and I was really scared, it was horrible."

The bullying went on for about a year, but what put a stop to it was Haley's idea to set up a special project to campaign against bullying.

She even received a grant of £600 from Community Education at Durham County Council to promote her work.

The work takes her into local feeder primary schools to talk about any concerns children may have about bullying and she takes lessons with Year 7 and 8 pupils at her school to get the anti-bullying message across.

Youth work

She is on the school anti-bullying committee and works as a peer mentor. She is currently planning a workshop for her local youth club.

"It's helped to build up my confidence and I've met loads of new people and made new friends.

"And when the bullies realised I wasn't bothered any more, they eased off."

Haley is taking her GCSEs next summer and hopes to go on to study A-levels and then to university.

But the year in which she was bullied certainly had an effect on her school work.

"My Sats results were not what they should have been.

"I had loads of catching up to do because I wasn't in lessons. I went to school, but I did my work in the library and missed lessons because I couldn't cope with it."

A safe haven

It was stories like Haley's that drove Cambridge-based educational consultant Dr Carrie Herbert to set up a charity to educate children who were missing school to avoid the bullies.

"I constantly found a child had stopped coming to school because they were being bullied," says Dr Herbert, who opened the Red Balloon centre in the city.

If we don't deal with bullying between the ages of 11 and 17, then we are storing up problems for the future

Dr Carrie Herbert
"A lot of children are bullied, a lot cope and put on a stiff upper lip or find it stops after a few weeks, but for some there's such a significant impact that they say they're not going to school."

Dr Herbert says the centre, which offers the usual academic curriculum alongside therapy and support work, takes children who are at their wits' end.

"I would say 50% of our children have attempted suicide. We take children who have really had it - reached the end of whatever tether they had."

To give some indication of how bad the bullying can be in some cases, Dr Herbert recalls how one child had been hit over the head so badly that he had to have a metal plate inserted.

Another boy had been forced to swallow a sharpened coin which made him very ill. He was too scared to tell his mother and doctor and it was only when he was x-rayed in hospital three weeks later that the problem came to light.


Dr Carrie Herbert: Angered by tales of bullying
And a strikingly pretty girl had been threatened with being slashed in the face because she was so attractive.

The Cambridge Red Balloon centre has 12 places for children aged between 12 and 16 years and the charity is planning to open three new centres in Norwich, Colchester and north-west London.

Children generally stay a year at the centre before being re-integrated into mainstream school.

Dr Herbert says it is crucial to stop bullying in schools so that lives are not ruined.

"It has a terrible effect on people's lives. I've met adults who say they don't form relationships, can't trust people, can't hold down a job and so on because they were bullied at school.

"If we don't deal with bullying between the ages of 11 and 17, then we are storing up problems for the future."

"The good thing about being bisexual is that it doubles your chance of a date on a Saturday night." - Woody Allen

Nope. I figure I can't get laid by any gender. :D

Ain't that the...

No I'll leave that one ;-))))

you've even got the award to prove it :P

you've even got the award to prove it :P[/b][/quote]
I knew somebody would remember! :P