I missed this one: Chicago education officials were ready to consider a proposal for a “gay-friendly” school, but the GLBT group that originally proposed the plan withdrew it.  Apparently, they didn’t want to bend to requests that the school be “all-inclusive, for kids that are straight, gay, obese,” and not exclusively GLBT. Many of you [...]

Can the web help students who, when school is making them feel suicidal, turn to Google for support? I must see five or ten Google search hits like the above each week from students. What advice would you give? Do counselors help? Parents? Teachers? Organizations? Preachers or secular social workers? Early graduation/GED? Home-schooling? Books? Poems? [...]

Nocturne: Moon, Bird, Wire I feel a need to pull back from the tools, and gravitate more toward meaning when I write. –Web Legacies Wrap-Up, 9 Aug 2008 The Jocks and Fags personal narrative was meaningful for me. In its original context – written for a class whose professor read it, penned a glowing comment [...]

So ends the Web Legacies series (see links to entire series at bottom). It’s been an interesting experience, taking those five-year-old education class essays and publishing them to you instead of just my professor.  I’m going to reflect a bit here, then list the entire series, with links, for a one-stop post for anybody who [...]

Of Jocks and Fags Dates: 1976-80 (-present) Picture a boy growing up in the same home from birth to the end of Junior High at age 15. The friends he made in first grade remain his friends, and his world, for the next nine years. He is blissfully secure in this world, in which nothing [...]

I’m thinking of so many public attacks on so many contributors to this community – adult and young adult – recently, in which the victims of the attacks did nothing to provoke those who attacked them.  I’m not going to link to any of them, because I don’t want to give them publicity.  I just [...]

I received this comment recently on my podcast post, “My Suicidal High School Years: A Happy Ending Bullying Story.” The comment is from a teen named Jack, who is experiencing now what I experienced 30 years ago. I’m sharing it because it’s evidence that the meme I’m about to propose – voluntary, as usual – [...]