Extended Comments
For my extended comments blog piece I
found Jens blog the most engaging for this reading. Jens blogs are always
interesting to read and are filled with pictures! Her Blog this week was really
interesting! The reading “Safe Spaces” made me a little sad while I was reading
it. It’s crazy to believe that students are being bullied all because of their
LGBT background. It’s even crazier to think this is happening and schools. In Jen’s blog she brought up about the
campaigned called “It gets better.” This campaign started in 2010 and started
with a video of a gay couple. Jen posted the video on her page and allowed us
all to see it! The video basically told viewers that it does get better being
gay or lesbian. One of the guy’s names in the video is Terry. Terry told us his
experience in high school. He explains it to be a really tough time in his life
and he couldn’t wait to get out. He was bullied so much because he was
“obviously gay,” like how he said. His parents went into talk to administration
one day because the bullying was just getting worse and worse. At the Catholic
school Terry attended, administration responded to his parents and said, “if
you look that way, talk that way, and dress that way there is nothing we can
do.”
After hearing how administration treated a
bullied kid, it makes me think about how every school treats their students. Do
they all ignore when a student is being bullied? We can only hope that young
kids get through their high school experience happy and there is something done
soon about bullying. Kids who are gay or lesbian should all realize, just like
Terry and his spouse did, that is does get
better!
P.S. Good post Jen!!!
Loved your post Gianna ! I feel so honor when someone says they did an extended comment of my blog ! It makes me happy to know that you enjoyed the videos and pictures I included it !! and awesome job sharing Terry's experience with the administrators at his high school that part of the video really connected back to Safe Spaces ! So in general, awesome post I loved it !!
ReplyDeleteHey Gianna! I too love reading Jen's blog every week! It makes me angry too how administration handled Terry's situation and I'm very hopeful not everyone deals with bullying cases that way! Great job this week! Your blog is so cute btw! :)
ReplyDeleteGlad that Jen's post resonated with you, and that you learned so much fro the It Gets Better Project. Say more about how you hear the Safe Spaces text echoing here as well...
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