Day of Silence, April 18th, 2007 Options

[elaboratedream]

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.

[moninja]

i didn't do it but i know this girl in my class and she did it. she got every teacher's approval to not talk in class.

[radhikaeatsraman]

I did Day of Silence! It was really cool, but I got a lot of shit during fifth period for it. Oh well, it was worth it. I'm totally doing it again next year. The only thing that I wish they could have done was organize it better.

[tokyo-rose]

My friends knew I was doing it because I had a notecard explaining the day of silence and stuff.

I had "Day of Silence" written on a piece of looseleaf paper, but I had to talk last period since my French teacher's really serious and wouldn't have allowed me not to talk.

[*Monochrome.*]

I would love to do it but as selfish as it sounds:

• My teachers would not accept it and I'd end up ion the prinicpals office
• Im picked on cause peers claim to think Im gay.. this would only cause more attention

Teachers can actualy be fired in the event they try to discriminate you for you belifes as the day of silence is considered a holiday.
I had one suspended without pay 2 years ago because she called me "filthy c**t licker".
And she was later fired.

So she pardon my french but she could kiss my "c**t licking" arse.

[HakunaMatata]

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?!?"

[SarahxJoy]

One of my friends did it. I thought it was pretty cool. I completely forgot about it until he reminded me about it.