Online National Student Survey for Canadian High School Students

[rita heyworth]

Egale Canada Launches Online National Student Survey


Every day at Egale Canada we get calls and emails from people looking for help. Requests for information about adoption, immigration, and.... divorce!

Some calls are extremely difficult. This week we heard from a single mother of a 16 year old gay youth. She was distraught and didn't know where to go for help.

Her son is out at school and faces harassment every day. The gym teacher makes fun of how he runs and fag is painted on his locker. When forced by the school's administration to take shop, wooden dildos were left at his bench. His mother approached the principal who washed his hands of the matter. She turned to the police for help. Nothing has been done. He needs four credits to graduate and has all but dropped out.

No one should have to endure this harassment. Our schools must protect and include ALL students.

On December 10th, Egale Canada launched a national student survey to look at homophobia and transphobia in Canadian Schools. The survey targets students in grades 8 through 12 and aims to document the realities of life at school for straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Two Spirit, intersex, queer, and questioning (LGBTTIQ) students, including the kids of LGBTTIQ parents. The information from this survey will provide educators and policy makers with information that will enable them to make Canadian schools safer and more respectful places for our youth. Help us get the word out.

Check it out online at www.climatesurvey.ca

For more info, call Helen Kennedy, 1-888-204-7777 or email [email protected].

[roseofblack25]

thanks rita!!! those kids that are harassing him need to get a life...but then it does sound like something the idiots at our school would try and do when making fun of my friends that are gay.

[syunismile]

The staff of that school should be dismissed. They are pathetic!