The Homophobia Stops Here

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The Homophobia Stops Here

• The Null and Hidden Curriculum

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What schools do not teach

• Through what isnt taught and how it is taught,
  large segments of the population are being
  discriminated against by the hidden and null
  curricula Sawyer Norris, 2004.

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Homophobia

• is an unjustified or unreasonable fear of the
  unknown
• Homophobia can be anything from an inward
  feeling of disgust or hatred towards people who
  are LGBT or ex-gay, to an outward verbal display
  of disapproval or even violence.

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• I can see the change in body language when I
  talk to some of my heterosexual friends about my
  struggle with homosexuality. Their arms get
  folded over their chest and their head looks down
  as if to say lets not talk about this anymore.

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• Research from the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight
  Education Network (GLSEN) found that 84 of LGBT
  students report being verbally harassed because
  of their sexual orientation

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Murder

• Matthew Shepard
• 21-year-old college student beaten and
• killed because he was gay.

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Suicide

• This world cannot remain so hard to live in and
  to have hope in -- not for all the "Bill's" who
  are out there now, and all who are yet to come.
• After Bill's death I found in one of his
  notebooks, he had written, "This is not my
  choice. This is not forced upon me. This just is."

Silence is where the hate grows that killed my
son.
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• It was a shock when my mate told me he was gay.
  Ive known him since school and Id never
  guessed. At first I thought he was joking. But he
  wasnt. Then I was angry that hed never told me.
  But how could he? It took a bit of getting used
  to, but now lifes pretty much how it used to be
  before he told me football, cars, clubbing.

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• I cant say I completely understand yet, but I
  do know Id be really missing out if he wasnt
  around.
• Its time to accept.

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• All schools have students who have either
  identified themselves as homosexual.
• These students should not be made to feel
  like second class citizens. No matter where they
  are in the process of defining their sexuality,
  these students should be treated with respect and
  dignity by their school teachers and classmates.

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• Students who approach a teacher or school
  counselor with questions about their sexuality
  should not be encouraged to instantly label
  themselves as homosexual. Rather, they should be
  given information from both sides of the debate
  regarding sexual orientation and development.
• In other words, students should be allowed to
  think for themselves.

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• "For things to get better, people need to get rid
  of the ignorant speech they use in their
• everyday lives,"
• Professor James Schultz

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Exposing the null/hidden curriculum

• Questions of identity, communication, community,
  and honesty are central to an adolescents
  development.
• If key pieces of these elements are missing for
  some students (and teachers) but not for others,
  then the curriculum communicates a message about
  those who are EXCLUDED in this dynamic. (Sawyer
  Norris, 2004)

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• Instead of denying differences it is important
• that we
• make differences Visible
• make differences The source of curriculum

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• A special thank you
• to Jennifer Connors
• for
• helping me
• learn PowerPoint
• The End
• By Rozina Ahmad