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Feb 21, 2007
Quickie Link: Court: Schools must protect gay students
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By vanrozenheim
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(USA) - Much like employees in a workplace, gay students have the right to attend school without being subjected to repeated taunts from other children, the state Supreme Court said today in a ruling that puts the onus for stopping the harassment on school districts. The court ruled unanimously that New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination is intended to protect children from "student-on-student harassment based on an individual's perceived sexual orientation" and allows those children to sue the school district if it fails to stop repeated taunts.
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