Canadian Schools Also Ignoring Parental Complaints About Anti-Gay Bullying?

That Canadian It Gets Better video arrives just in time: School administrators are accused of ignoring anti-gay bullying there too: “Despite parental complaints spanning two years, the Surrey school district did nothing about homophobic taunting, bullying and assaults on a mentally challenged 12-year-old girl, a complaint accepted with the BC Human Rights Tribunal alleges. The girl’s father alleges Surrey’s Erma Stephenson Elementary School discriminated against her in the provision of a service customarily provided to the public, on the basis of mental and physical disability, contrary to the province’s Human Rights Code. … The father alleges three students made “derisive, insulting” comments to his daughter, including calling her a lesbian since 2008. His daughter, referred to simply as T in court documents, has cerebral palsy and a mental disability.”

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