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Saturday, October 2, 2010

School Bullying: A National Pandemic Disease | The Bilerico Project

School Bullying: A National Pandemic Disease | The Bilerico Project

lot of people are jarred by the recent explosion of LGBT school suicides. suicide.jpgFive in the last three weeks -- notably the horrific bullying and bridge-jumping death of Tyler Clementi at Rutgers University. LGBT rallies and protests are happening. One current petition demands that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan add gender identity and sexual orientation to current anti-bullying programs.

But LGBT bullying won't end if we separate it from bullying suffered by other students. With Gay History Month starting, it's a good moment to put our demographic suicide problem into a bigger perspective. School bullying is a contagious social cancer that is