Quickie Link [1]: Court: Schools must protect gay students [2]

By : vanrozenheim on Feb 21, 2007 - 06:22 PM
GeneralNews [3]
(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.

Note: Read full article on blog.nj.com [4]
Links
  [1] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=5&lead=1
  [2] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=555&lead=1
  [3] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=1&lead=1
  [4] http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/02/court_schools_must_protect_gay.html