Day of Silence, April 18th, 2007 |
Day of Silence, April 18th, 2007 |
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http://www.dayofsilence.org/
QUOTE 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. ![]() |
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people did it today, it was cool. It as funny because during class, few girls wrote in a notebook and other girls would read it out loud to the class because they were participating in the Day of Silence.
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This was my second year doing it. I helped organize it (I'm one of the officers in my school's GSA)...
There was a lot of prep work to do. We've been preparing for DOS for months and we still didnt get everything we would have liked to done.... We had to contact the administration, talk to them about, get a note out to teachers in the teacher's newsletter, get posters approved, write out a letter to give to teachers the day before, figure out how many people were participating and make copies for them, make speaking cards......... the list goes on and on. A lot of people were supportive, we had a lot of people participating (at least 50).... but there were more people who were being assholes to everyone doing it.... I found that a lot of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual/transgender) community at my school didn't participate... it was mostly allies (straight kids who support LGBT) and I know a few LGBT kids who not only didn't participate, but said shit about the kids who did. The GSA at my school also organized a "Breaking the Silence" meeting after school today. We had people who participated and people who didn't come to talk about it. We started out with some statistics and stuff... then we opened it up for everyone to talk. The kids who participated shared their experiences, and the people who didn't told us why they didn't. We got a lot of feedback that way, and next year, we hope to do more with the Breaking the Silence event. We're thinking of doing something on the school news (video announcements)... but I guess we have a year to figure all of that out. |
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Oy, what a shame! ): I know tons of members of the LGBT community particpate, but I know over half of the participants were Allies like myself.
And I wish I had attended our Breaking the Silence meeting! I actually didn't know about it until I heard a bunch of people screaming (it's how they begin the meeting). I just hope next year we spread the word a little more, I know tons of people who were like "What? It's Day of Silence arlready?!?" |
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