New Jersey’s fast on its way to being the most gay friendly state in the union. Not only are they totally down with gay civil unions, but the state’s Supreme Court has just ruled that schools are legally obligated to protect faglings from anti-gay bullying.
The court understands that the school can’t be bullying bullies willy-nilly, so gay students who seek to prosecute for protection must prove that they’ve gone to school officials and that they did nothing to stop it. Further, the ruling does not deem all harassment as basis for punishment.
365 Gay elaborates:
A student would have to complain to school officials that the bullying was based on his or her “perceived sexual orientation” and that the school district failed to reasonably address the problem the ruling said.
The court noted that school districts do not have to eradicate all types of harassment to avoid liability, but must show they have “implement effective preventive and remedial measures” to curb the discrimination.
“A school cannot be expected to shelter students from all instances of peer harassment,” Zazzali wrote. “Nevertheless, reasonable measures are required to protect our youth, a duty that schools are more than capable of performing.”
So, basically schools need to stop bullying, but not all bullying, and there’s really no way to prove the basis of said bullying?
We should have been lawyers, it sounds like a snap!
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Linda Lupo
Need help !!! I work for the United States Postal Service and have been repeatly attacked due to the fact I am gay.The lastest was having my supervisor tell 5 people with whom I have written statements from that she is homophobia. They have also sent me for a fit for duties which is a psycological evaluation which I passed. This is pure discrimination.
Please e-mail me if you know who or how I can get help.
Linda Lupo
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WELL I AM HAPPY THAT FINALLY WE ARE BEING DEFENDED I KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH HELL AND DONT DESEVRE IT ! AND IF LINDA CAN READ THIS WHAT YOUR WORK IS DOING ISD WRONG AND THEY SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY ALL MEANS ! ..
call GLAD
Linda- call GLAAD. They’ll help you!