subject: Respectfully, Contemporary Issues Class and Continuing to Engage in Social Action [print this page] While this second year was marked by less resistance than the first, there were still pockets of it. We had, however, opened a school wide conversation about homophobia and heterosexism at Jones. In the school newspaper, there were "Pro" and "Con" op-ed articles about the Safe Space stickers, which many teachers and the principal chose to display on their doors. Some teachers now heard and interrupted homophobic remarks. Two students came out to their peers as not being heterosexual for the first time in the collective memory of the school, with little fanfare.
Respectfully, Contemporary Issues Class and Continuing to Engage in Social Action
