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1. You DO have a right to participate in Day of Silence and other expressions of your opinion at a public school during non-instructional time: the breaks between classes, before and after the school day, lunchtime, and any other free times during your day. If your principal or a teacher tells you otherwise, you should contact our office or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
2. You do NOT have a right to remain silent during class time if a teacher asks you to speak. If you want to stay quiet during class on Day of Silence, we recommend that you talk with your teachers ahead of time, tell them that you plan to participate in Day of Silence and why it’s important to you, and ask them if it would be okay for you to communicate in class on that day in writing. Most teachers will probably say yes.
3. Your school is NOT required to "sponsor" Day of Silence. But Day of Silence is rarely a school-sponsored activity to begin with – it’s almost always an activity led by students. So don't be confused - just because your school isn’t officially sponsoring or participating in Day of Silence doesn’t mean that you can’t participate.
4. Students who oppose Day of Silence DO have the right to express their views, too. Like you, they must do so in a civil, peaceful way and they only have a right to do so during non-instructional time. For example, they don’t have a right to skip school on Day of Silence without any consequences, just as you don't have a right to skip school just because you don’t like what they think or say. blog.dayofsilence.org...
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
2. You do NOT have a right to remain silent during class time if a teacher asks you to speak.
Originally posted by Ferris.Bueller.II
I wonder if GLSEN is planning a heterosexual recognition day out of fairness for the students left out of this "Day Of Silence"? I hope somebody files a discrimination lawsuit if they don't. What am I saying! There's a 'Black Awareness Month', an 'Asian Pacific American Heritage Month', a 'Latino Awareness Month', even an 'Islam Awareness Month', but is there a 'White Awareness Month'? That would be racist! Wouldn't it? Just as a 'Straight Awareness Day' would be declared discriminatory, right?
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
reply to post by AzoriaCorp
Reading the article FULLY, and as SD pointed out, this is not meant to
disrupt classes or waste money.
I don't even see what taxpayer money is being used??
~Keeper
Once your afraid to voice your true feelings in public, to your peers for fear of ridicule
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
reply to post by Ferris.Bueller.II
There is a "white awareness month" ... it's called every day.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
I hate to say it, but it does show your true colors. Pun intended!
I agree. However, do we really need all these awareness months? I mean for crying out loud...
Originally posted by Ferris.Bueller.II
I wonder if GLSEN is planning a heterosexual recognition day out of fairness for the students left out of this "Day Of Silence"? I hope somebody files a discrimination lawsuit if they don't. What am I saying! There's a 'Black Awareness Month', an 'Asian Pacific American Heritage Month', a 'Latino Awareness Month', even an 'Islam Awareness Month', but is there a 'White Awareness Month'? That would be racist! Wouldn't it? Just as a 'Straight Awareness Day' would be declared discriminatory, right?
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
reply to post by AzoriaCorp
If it's not on the curriculum, then the Teachers can CHOOSE whether or not to inform their classes about it.
Nothing in this process is mandatory. I don't think anti-bullying campaigns are a waste of time, regardless of what kind of specific bullying they are attempting to promote and prevent.
~Keeper
Originally posted by AzoriaCorp
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
reply to post by AzoriaCorp
If it's not on the curriculum, then the Teachers can CHOOSE whether or not to inform their classes about it.
Nothing in this process is mandatory. I don't think anti-bullying campaigns are a waste of time, regardless of what kind of specific bullying they are attempting to promote and prevent.
~Keeper
how could it NOT be on the cirriculum for the schools who are participating in it? Otherwise how would any of the students even know about it?
Plus I would like to know how any of this "Gay Day" charade, does any prevention for bullying? If I were working for gay rights i would find this insulting to my cause as I would think no one would take it seriously...
Originally posted by AzoriaCorp
www.foxnews.com...
I'd have to agree that this is a waste of tax dollars and flat out garbage to sympathize with a single lifestyle.
What about physically and mentally handicapped children? What about racial bullying? Or just bullying in general? Where is their day of silence?
Why the extra emphasis and focus on homosexuality?
All this drama for a sexual preference? Seems one sided and very self righteous.