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Jul 13, 2007
Quickie Link: Gay Youth Attacked In Schools, Teachers Doing Nothing
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By vanrozenheim
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(UK) - Sixty-five per cent of lesbian and gay school pupils have been bullied because of their sexuality, a survey has found. Half of teachers ignore homophobic language when they hear it and the 30 per cent of the kids say adults at their school are responsible for the bullying. Stonewall, which wrote the survey, says this means that of current secondary school pupils, 143,000 children have suffered from anti-gay name-calling, 64,000 have been physically attacked and 26,000 have had death-threats. Ben Summerskill, Stonewall chief executive, said: “This remains one of the few sorts of bullying about which too many schools still take no action. It blights the lives not just of gay children but thousands of pupils perceived to be lesbian or gay too.”
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