Sexual Orientation and School Policy

A Practical Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Community Activists

Ian K Macgillivray author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:19th Nov '03

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This book helps the reader to understand and mediate the debates that arise when gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, and queer/questioning (GLBTIQ) students and their families ask for equal treatment from the schools and are opposed by conservative parents. Sexual Orientation and School Policy is a case study of one school districts' attempt to adopt and implement policies that include sexual orientation. This book describes the work of the Safe Schools Coalition who advocate and educate for equal rights for GLBTIQ students. Concerned Citizens, a group of conservative parents, opposed the inclusion of sexual orientation in the policies. The author highlights the factors that either facilitated or impeded the implementation of the policies as well as the strategies employed by the Safe Schools Coalition in educating opponents.

An experiential and practical guide to the problematic and politicized situation when educators attempt to create schools not only free of anti-gay violence, but schools where GLBTIQ students are valued equally with heterosexual students. * Teachers College Record *

ISBN: 9780742525085

Dimensions: 229mm x 150mm x 13mm

Weight: 313g

224 pages