Al Franken and Joe Solmonese
Posted: October 5, 2010 03:01 PM
Preventing Tragedy in Our Schools
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-franken/post_1002_b_751338.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-franken/post_1002_b_751338.html)
Over the past year, the national spotlight has focused on the deeply tragic stories of young people who were so severely bullied based on their real or perceived sexual orientation that they took the desperate step of ending their own lives.
These tragedies were entirely preventable. Schools were not protecting these children -- some as young as 11-years-old. For them, school was not the safe place of learning and growth that it should be, but a place of anguish and fear.