Toronto LGBT students to have 'positive space' rooms

Dan82 · May 7, 2011

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/lo...e-schools-110506/20110506/?hub=TorontoNewHome

A Lawrence Avenue high school has designated a special room to act as a gathering place for gay and lesbian students, an initiative that may soon come to every school in Toronto.

Students at Lawrence Park Collegiate, near Avenue Road and Lawrence Avenue West, designated the Grade 12 student lounge as a "positive space" where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students can go to seek support.

The Toronto District School Board says the initiative will be found in all 106 high school and 480 elementary and middle schools in the city by the end of 2012. Each room will be staffed by a special representative offering support on issues like homophobia, sexism and gender bias.

The idea for the "positive space" came from the Faulkner Report, which was created after 15-year-old Jordan Manners was shot in the chest at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute in 2007. The report highlighted the need to give students a space to go when they feel unsafe...

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kwyjibo · May 7, 2011

Seems somewhat patronizing, but it's certainly a good thing.

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