Challenging Homophobia
- Duration: 30:00 minutes
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- Published: 17 11 2005
- Licence information for Challenging Homophobia
- Part of the series School Matters
Summary
Homophobic bullying leads to more gay, lesbian and bisexual pupils playing truant and leaving school earlier than their heterosexual counterparts. Only six per cent of schools have specific policies to tackle the problem.
One such school successfully addressing this issue is the Turton High School Media Arts College in Bolton. The college has introduced the subject of homophobic bullying into its PSHE syllabus for Year 9 pupils and has produced the Living It campaign in conjunction with Bolton Public Health.
This programme follows a Year 9 lesson which involves activities to help children challenge attitudes about sexuality and also focuses on an INSET session with a representative of the Schools Out organisation.
We hear from staff and pupils who have experienced homophobic bullying first hand, illustrating the destructive effect such victimisation is having on pupils and staff in British schools.
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Comments (5)
I am a 17 year old student at the Brakenhale Sixth Form in Bracknell and have strong opinions towards homophobia. I'm an 'out' homosexual male and have been since I was in year nine. I was a victim of some bullying, but it was only ever verbal. The girl in the video seemed to have suffered a great deal more than I did but I understand how the constant remarks do damage self esteem. Every view and opinion expressed by the people that took part in this video match mine in some way. I've always been interested in the idea student-run lessons on this topic and this video has given me thoughts on how I could do that. My thanks go out to the people who made it.
Fatherphobia
As single father I am bringing up my two children.
I am supposed to read with my two sons daily at least twenty minutes (thats the childrens daily homework).
I have stopped to do so.
All the reading booklets they bring home from school are about mum, mum and mum.
If a father or Dad is mentioned at all, in very rare cases, so it is in the huge majority in negative ways.
While homophobia is taken seriously, fatherphobia still is a taboo no-one dares to speak about. It seems to be a taboo subject.
If any ethnic (or sexual) minority were treated like fathers are presented and ridiculed in childrens reading material and worksheets, there would be public outcry and those books would be taken out of circulation immediately and replaced as a matter of urgency with books presenting them in a positive way, at whatever the cost.
Could this matter of very serious discrimination of a huge part of the population be addressed, please.
Yes, I thoroughly agree with Blagdon. I teach in FE, where it remains resillient to rather weak efforts to overcome it, but have also taught KS1, where it is just as evident, along will all points in between. Homophobia, like racism, needs approaching with vigour and openess from reception classes onwards.
Still - great resource.
Excellent video. I agree the subject should be addressed in schools but when is the question. It needs to be done before views have been formulated
excellent resource