Exigence: Bullying is a growing issue for anyone who happens to be gay, lesbian, or transgender. There is a large amount of anger towards these people, and it is being passed down through generations. Schools should be doing more to protect peoples rights, and a lot of them dont have policys specifically adressing homophobic bullying. Even when these policys are in place, they are often not enforced. These kids are at a higher risk of suicide, expecially when in an unnsupportive environment.
Claims: I think its important that we bring attention to these issues, because it makes no sense to continue to bring hate into our next generation. It is unnacceptable for anyone to be bullied based on somebodys perception of 'normal'. This is not a 'choice', as people so often think and it is unfair for people to be treated differently due to their sexual orientation.
"According to recent gay bullying statistics, gay and lesbian teens are two to three times as more likely to commit teen suicide than other youths. About 30 percent of all completed suicides have been related to sexual identity crisis. Students who also fall into the gay, bisexual, lesbian or transgendered identity groups report being five times as more likely to miss school because they feel unsafe after being bullied due to their sexual orientation."
"In a 2005 survey about gay bullying statistics, teens reported that the number two reason they are bullied is because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender expression. The number one reason reported was because of appearance."
I plan to adress cyberbullying, physical and mental abuse, and to teach you about the actual statistics today. Things are getting better but we still have a lot of work to do if we want kids to grow up in a safe environment. People need to realize that what other people do dosnt affect you at all unless you make it that way.
- Over half, about 56 percent, of all students have witnesses a bullying crime take place while at school.
- A reported 15 percent of all students who don't show up for school report it to being out of fear of being bullied while at school.
- There are about 71 percent of students that report bullying as an on-going problem.
- Along that same vein, about one out of every 10 students drops out or changes schools because of repeated bullying.
- One out of every 20 students has seen a student with a gun at school.
- Some of the top years for bullying include 4th through 8th graders in which 90 percent were reported as victims of some kind of bullying.
- Other recent bullying statistics reveal that 54 percent of students reported that witnessing physical abuse at home can lead to violence in school.
- Among students of all ages, homicide perpetrators were found to be twice as likely as homicide victims to have been bullied previously by their peers.
- There are about 282,000 students that are reportedly attacked in high schools throughout the nation each month.
"In fact, about 9 out of 10 LGBT teens have reported being bullied at school within the past year because of their sexual orientation, according to the most recent gay bullying statistics. Out of those numbers, almost half have reported being physically harassed followed by another quarter who reported actually being physically assaulted. Unfortunately most teens who experience bullying of any kind are reluctant to share their experience or report the incident to a teacher or trusted adult. Even more unfortunate are the gay statistics that report a lack of response among those teachers and school administration. According to a recent statistic, out of the students that did report a harassment or bullying situation because of their sexuality, about one third of the school staff didn't do anything to resolve the issue."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21502225
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/suicide-of-gay-teenager-who-urged-hope/
http://csus-dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10211.9/432/Thesis%20FINAL.pdf?sequence=1
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/gay-bullying-statistics.html
http://www.laweekly.com/2012-05-31/news/gay-bullying-schools-student-non-discrimination-act/
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