War Over Homosexuality In The Classroom -- A CNN Story

[leigh.bess.toad]

A Story focusing on Anoka-Hennepin School district and the rash of student suicides. And the bullying of gay students in the schools.

 

If I'm not mistaken, this is Michelle Bachman's district. Coincidence?

 

ps - you may get a brief commercial first.

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2011/07/29/minnesota.school.gay.cnn?hpt=hp_c1

[Rick Munroe]

If I'm not mistaken, this is Michelle Bachman's district. Coincidence?

 

You're not mistaken. From the Advocate:

 

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann’s failure to address a disturbing trend of teen suicides within her own congressional district does not reflect well on her White House ambitions, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told The Advocate Thursday.

 

Over the past two years, nine teens have committed suicide in Minnesota’s largest school district, resulting in federal investigations, lawsuits from advocacy groups, and the morbid designation of a “suicide contagion area” by state public health officials. At least four suicide victims, as Mother Jones noted in a feature published Monday, had been reported victims of bullying because they were LGBT or perceived to be LGBT.

 

But Bachmann has yet to speak out on the suicides within the state's 6th congressional district and appears to have chided anti-bullying legislative efforts in the past.

 

Pelosi told The Advocate of Bachmann’s silence on the issue, “I would think that if she wanted to be the President of the United States, she would understand that this is a larger issue than whether someone is gay or not, but as to whether someone is harassed and bullied to the point of seeing no way out.”

 

“Obviously it’s an issue bigger than Michele Bachmann’s district, so maybe we should all be speaking out about it, and not just leaving it to her,” Pelosi added.

 

Full story: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/07/29/Pelosi_to_Bachmann_Address_the_Teen_Suicides_in_Your_District/

[orbital sander]

 

If I'm not mistaken, this is Michelle Bachman's district. Coincidence?

 

 

Coincidence? Well the fact they elected her speaks volumes

[Diverdan]

When she was in the Minnesota State Senate she would not support proposed anti-bullying legislation. She made some statements to the effect that bullying is part of normal growing up and we all have to deal with it. I don't have the exact quote but the message was clear. You can probably find the quote from her in some of the articles. Recently there have been some other stories reporting "research" to show that the incidence or suicide in that district is not any more than in some other places. Those stories seem to be generated in response to the above quoted articles, but I have not bothered to verify them, or what sources may have generated them. But, IMHO, given her husband's clinic, her attitudes toward most things that do not support her world view, and her failure to check facts before she speaks, makes her completely unqualified to even being considered a serious candidate for President, and unqualified for her current job. But then, you have to wonder where all the support for her is coming from, don't you? And how could she be elected in the first place?

[orbital sander]

And how could she be elected in the first place?

 

She is so toxic, and there is no way that she will make it as a nominee, let alone any further...

 

spoken at my own peril...

[+ deej]

Recently there have been some other stories reporting "research" to show that the incidence or suicide in that district is not any more than in some other places.

 

Really? I haven't seen anything like that. From the reading I've done Anoka-Hennepin, and other "no promo homo" school districts, have much higher suicide rates than districts where teachers are allowed to intervene in bullying and discuss The Gay.