Sunday, October 3, 2010

Gayness, Multicultural Education, and Community, by Dennis Carlson (Hyperlinks)

While reading this article I immediately thought of a recent incident that occurred at Rutgers university. There was a student who was gay and he asked his roommate if he could have the dorm room for a little bit. His roommate said it was alright, but before he left he decided to turn on his computer web cam. After the roommate left he turned the camera on and began streaming what was happening in his room on the internet. Later, when the student who was in the room found out about the video he decided to take his own life. I found a recording of this story online and believe it describes in good detail the issue of privacy and homosexuality.

Recently I have seen commercials on MTV talking about this Rutgers incident and on their website they actually show a video of kids from Rutgers university talking about this new issue of cyber bullying and the affects it can have on kids these days. Many people do not even realize that what they are doing is wrong because they are saying it on facebook or they are just discussing things over the internet with friends. However, it's gotten to the point where homosexual teenagers are taking their own lives because of these actions and something must be done to stop it. In the past month there have been four suicides with gay students across the United States.These numbers are continuing to go up and will continue unless something is done.

In class I would like to discuss what we can do, as future teachers, to stop or at least make an effort to stop this new type of bullying and growing issue of homosexual suicides.

6 comments:

  1. I agree that something needs to be done immediately. I related my post to Clementi's case as well and i was really interested in the videos that you linked in your post :)

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  2. i didnt even here about this. thats so rediculous. how could someone just feel that they can do that to someone? i think this only srapes the surface of bullying and the things were gonna have to deal with as teachers, as scary as that may be. =/

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  3. I posted some stuff about this on my blog too. I want to know if Carlson has anything by the way of useful advice and strategies here... what is his main point that gives us reason and impetus to act?

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  4. This makes me really sad, why is it that his roommate felt the need to record what he was doing. You should be able to trust the person you live with but this person caused their roommate to end their own life, this is very sad.

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  5. wait what! thats soo twisted what happed at rugers. i never knew that!

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  6. This is the first that I am hearing about this and it really made me sad and pissed! I am not a TV watcher, so I am always behind in events! You did a really awesome job on opening peoples eyes to this problem that we are still facing, even in 2010!

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