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Help me work this out (please)
So, I've volunteered to supervise a "safe space" at our school. The board is pushing for each school to literally have a space where kids can go that's designated as an area for kids who identify as GLBTQ where they don't have to worry about anyone bullying them.
My question is this: how do I go about framing this? If I go in to each classroom and tell kids that there's this space, no one is going to use it for fear of being labelled. Because I teach grade 7-9, half the kids don't identify as anything yet, let alone gay.
Re: Help me work this out (please)
We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
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We have to establish it formally, so it can't just be via word of mouth (which is, annoyingly enough, the best way to go about this). I had something going on informally in my classroom last year, but the board is mandating this, so there are newsletters and stuff we have to send home. Either the teachers have to talk to their classes, or we get student reps to talk to their classes. I think we'd have more success with student driven initiatives than with teacher driven ones, personally.
As for the idea of safe space regardless of the LGBTQ stuff, I agree. It should be open for everyone. I think the idea of the Gay-Straight alliance is a great one for bridging the gap too. Hell, we shouldn't even need this in the first place. The entire school should be a safe space.
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this. I don't get why it shouldn't be about all bullying first of all, and second, doesn't this teach kids (basically) that they can bully/be bullied in certain places and not others? I think the whole message is confusing and counterproductive.
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Well, in all honesty, I think it acknowledges the fact that we can't stop bullying. This may sound cynical, but I think it's one of those ugly aspects of human nature. It's not like it's a behavior that goes away - I know plenty of adults who are bullies and jerks. (And their kids usually turn out the same way.)
Practically, it's impossible to nail kids on it, and even if you do, the consequences are minor. It's always a he said/she said thing and there's rarely solid evidence. Inevitably their parents are in denial, and the cycle of frustration continues. And you also have to keep in mind that we can only police what happens on school grounds. What's said and done off school property isn't something we can control.
So, given the fact that the situation is imperfect, what are our options? Ultimately, the hope is that it's possible to change the culture of a school and given the rise in suicides in gay teens across North America, we clearly have to start doing things differently.
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It needs to be formally done insofar as we need to tell the school that there's a room and people are welcome to go there. Either it comes from student council, or it comes teachers.
Frankly, too many of the teachers aren't progressive enough to handle that conversation.
I talked about it at our staff meeting after school today and there was a lot of push back from people who were like "what if they just use the room as a hang out spot?" or "You're not going to teach them anything about sexuality, are you? Like, they're just there to talk about it, and you're not going to try to impose your views if they go against their families', will you? "
Sigh.
I don't care if kids want to hang out in the safe zone. If they do, it's probably because they feel safe there, and that's not a bad thing.
And, of course I'm going to talk - but more importantly listen and say that ultimately the most important thing is to be yourself and love one another AND YOURSELF. Yeesh.
It blows my mind that that idea is controversial somehow.
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