Dept. of Ed. to force changes at school district over anti-gay bullying suicide (WashingtonBlade)
After publishing, last year, a guidance to school district administrators connecting anti-gay and anti-trans bullying in schools to banned gender-based harassment under Title IX and Title IV of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Department of Education has ruled that the Tehachapi School District in California did not properly protect Seth Walsh from gender-based harassment leading to his suicide last year.
Think Progress has located a letter from the Department concluding the District did not take sufficient steps to stop the harassment and bullying preceding the death, and must now take special measures to change the school environment.
“Based on the above facts and analysis,” read part of the 20-page ruling, “the United States concludes that the Student was subject to persistent, pervasive, and often severe sex-based harassment that resulted in a hostile educational environment of which the District had notice, and that the District failed to take steps to sufficient [sic] to stop the harassment, to prevent its recurrence, or to eliminate the hostile environment.”
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Complete article at Washington Blade : http://bit.ly/maki91
