Anti-gay remarks common at SF schools

[Shana A]

Anti-gay remarks common at SF schools
   
Published 09/17/2009
by Seth Hemmelgarn

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4193

Almost half of high school students – 48 percent – district wide reported hearing other students use words like "->-bleeped-<-," "dyke," or "that's so gay" 12 or more times in the past year. Likewise, 48 percent had not heard teachers or staff intervene when the comments were made.

District wide, 7 percent of high school students reported that in the past year they were harassed or bullied because they were gay or lesbian or perceived to be gay or lesbian.

Four percent of transgender students or students who were perceived to be transgender said they had been harassed in high school during the same period.

Many schools' data show little variation on those numbers.