Lgbt Thesis Statement

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Promoting school success for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning students Genevieve M. Thomas, Cyndi Hsiao, Michelle Rauld, and Dorian Miller (2008). Promoting school success for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning students: primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and intervention strategies. Thesis Statement: The authors posits the idea that programming to support and promote social/emotional wellbeing and resiliency should follow a public health framework, which includes providing three levels of services simultaneously. I. Thesis Statement: The authors posits the idea that programming to support and promote social/emotional wellbeing and resiliency should follow a public health framework, which includes providing three levels of services simultaneously A. Primary prevention refers to school practices that promote positive social/emotional development for the entire school community. B. Secondary efforts target a smaller group of …show more content…

The way that a school will facilitate this is by educating the students and staff on sexual orientation and gender identity. There are few laws dealing with students who are LGBTQ and the school needs to educate themselves on them. While the LGBTQ has few laws to protect them, every student has the right to feel safe and attend a school that is harassment free. The authors state that all students should be able to attend all educational programs, the guidelines on sexual discrimination be diminished, and that they take each and every students complaints seriously. Every school leader should know and understand the laws and policies that exist, and if they don’t the leadership should take it upon themselves to create their own anti-bullying and harassment policies, which may be specific to the sexual minority

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