Back to school...
Filed by: Cathy Renna
September 3, 2008 7:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/back_to_school.php

This week, millions of kids and young adults will stream back to school. It is a perennial media story usually focusing on the cost of supplies. Sadly, the stories of the challenges so many students face did not make it into the news - the bullying, teasing and other challenges for those who are "different."

Yesterday, I watched my nearly three year old daughter meet her first teacher, explore a new environment called "the classroom" and now await with both pride and trepidation as she begins pre-school early next week. But it's not her I worry about this week. We found an accepting school with other LGBT parents and look forward to the beginning of my child's formal education (it is a Montessori school after all). The kids I worry about are the LGBT kids, the gender-non confirming kids and the kids with LGBT parents who are not in the same situation.