December 2011
5 posts
One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
Fantastic piece about one teacher making it better.
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not...
“It’s no longer good enough for us to tell kids that it’s going to get better; we...”
– Rick Mercer (via livinglifefeminist)
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Write a Letter, Make It Better! →
Write a letter to your current or former high school principal and let them know what it’s like for LGBT youth — and what steps they can take to Make It Better now!
Yes! Check out makeitbetterproject.org :) We'd...
zumie-monster:
how about instead of an “it gets better” project we have a “let’s make it better” project.