Bullying in the School Environment

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In the school environment, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community is an example of one particularly targeted group which is consistently besieged by attacks from homophobic students, faculty and staff. There have been charities and other organizations founded to specifically help minority groups, who are regularly targeted. In 2004-2005, a prominent English activist and charity group in the U. K. called Stonewall, set up partnerships to discuss homophobic bullying in schools with Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays (FFLAG) and Lesbian & Gay Youth Scotland and then launched a campaign to tackle that same homophobia and homophobic bullying in schools, called Education for All. Since then, Stonewall has done surveys, held conferences, and lobbied legislators, as well as worked with teachers to gather the research from the surveys on homophobic bullying in schools. In 2010, Stonewall released the first film centered around the problem of homophobic bullying, made solely to help schools tackle the challenges they and the students face, called FIT ("History of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equality." www.stonewall.org.uk). Even though the U.S. is notorious for its school shootings and school violence, a survey given by the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) conducted between the 2005 and 2006 school year, which spanned forty countries, showed that the United States was directly in the middle of the ranking of the survey when it came to the most reported bullying in school age children. The U.S. ranked 20th for girls and 17th for boys, with Sweden as the country with the lowest amount of reported bullying and Lithuania as the country with the most reported bullying in schools (Craig, "Global Bullying ...

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