Mount Si High School beating raises concern over treatment of gay students

Dan82 · Jun 8, 2010

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012026933_mtsifight04m.html

Hundreds of protesters and counter-protesters clashed outside Mount Si High School in the Snoqualmie Valley in 2008 over The Day of Silence, an annual event meant to call attention to the harassment of gay students.

Now, a brutal assault in the boys' locker room is raising questions about the climate for gay students at the school and whether administrators are doing enough to respond to bullying.

The November attack was the culmination of several weeks of taunts about the perceived sexual orientation of a freshman boy, his mother said. The assault victim was another 14-year-old boy who told Snoqualmie police that he was tired of his friend being picked on...
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Revan · Jun 8, 2010

Wow I wanna hit the entire school administration over the head....I mean f**k

After the assault, a vice principal asked the boy who was taunted if he had been subjected to anti-gay comments; the boy told him no. But in later conversations with his mother and the victim's mother, the boy said he had been taunted over seeming gay.
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OF course he said 'no' you twits, HE WAS SCARED! Gawd it's amazing how dense people can be.

Étoile · Jun 8, 2010

I had really thought severe anti-bullying was a thing of the past. I thought that being gay wasn't a big deal anymore, that teens didn't care who you liked.

Why was the administration so nonchalont about the whole thing? A child was beaten for being gay. Do have no no sympathy?

Nomad187 · Jun 8, 2010

he wasn't even beaten for being gay he was beaten for presumeably being gay.

Connor22 · Jun 9, 2010

I wish my friends would stanad up for me but no, that guys lucky he's got some good friends, even if he is getting bullied, at least he got out of there

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