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Originally Posted by nik-
From Flash Waken's post
I think those numbers are at the point where if the schools aren't doing it by choice, they get pushed into it.
Shame on the PC members that voted against it too.
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That's not answering my question, though. How many applications to boards, which boards and how many denials.
The stats that are being posted in the clip go more to individual services within the school the approving alliances.
Anyways, I can see where I'm going to very soon be clipped with the bad guy role here.
But lets seperate the items.
Can school environments be terrible on gay students? Absolutely, we know there is bullying in schools we know that there is mistreatment of gays. But the repair of that goes to school actions, discipline, educational opportunities.
Are boards rejecting Gay/Straight Alliances? is it systemic with certain boards? do we need to have a body to oversea schoolboards to audit them on rejections vs approvals. Nothing was presented with this bill that points in that direction. I'm not asking for those answers to be a jerk, but to understand if boards are going out of the way to reject these alliances then yeah how do we fix it and does the government need to be involved?
That's the question and that's why the vote went the way it probably did, not because these people are lake of fire gay hating gun toting #######s, but because the bill presented in its current fashion was long on hope and balloons and short on ay factual backup.