Day of Silence, April 18th, 2007 Options

[HakunaMatata]

http://www.dayofsilence.org/

DAY OF SILENCE, April 18, 2007: The Day of Silence is an annual event held to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday. In it's 11th year, the Day of Silence is one of the largest student-led actions in the country

I'm not an active member of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club at my school, but I've always thought that this is one movement that deserves my support and finally, after procrastinating for a couple of years, I've finally decided to do it. It's gonna' be hard not talking (several people have told me that it'd be impossible for me), but 'tis a worthy cause.

This is more of a national movement than is something School-y, but admittedly, because it is youth-run, it has its roots at schools. But anyone can participate! So I guess I just...put...it...here.

[*relaxdontrelapse*]

a lot of people at my school participated today, but a lot of them couldn't refrain from talking.

someone said they'd get in trouble by the teachers...well, at my school, everyone wore a tag explaining why and some of them had shirts. it's a school wide thing and people knew about it.

syntheticxglow- you weren't participating last year, so therefore it doesn't matter if you talked. it's a participation thing, not a thing where the whole school has to stay quiet all day in support.