Many of the professional associations listed in the resources section (pp. 17–19) can provide helpful information and local contacts to assist school administrators, health and mental health professionals, educators, teachers, and parents in dealing with school controversies in their communities." They have found that the work to be done is in the classroom and not trying to treat this as a mental disease or defect. Nor is it a social defect that should have prejudice attached to it. I stand by this conclusion and agree 100%.
My thoughts on children being made to live in a world of bias and prejudice I'm sure is shared with everyone in my group. It's shameful and needs to be changed. Though I'm an optimist I'm also a realist and know that without new teachers, teachers like us who have grown up in a time where sexual orientation is becoming less and less a prejudicial issue things can't change without education. Classes like these and a furtherance of gay rights. I know things won't change over night but I know by the time we retire as teachers we will see suicide rates and acceptance percentages of gays by educators increase much like it has over the past twenty years. Related to the course material in relation to EDPS 322 in chapter 6 prejudice in the classroom due to sexual orientation was talked about. Gender Identity and sexual orientation were talked about as being led causes of bias and harassment to students. Sexual Identity as described in chapter six as a complex combination of beliefs about gender roles and sexual orientation. "Erikson and many other earlier psychologists thought that identifying your gender identity was straightforward; you simply realized that you were male or female and acted accordingly. But today, we know that some people experience conflicts about their gender. For example, transsexuals often report feeling trapped in the wrong body; they experience themselves as female, but their biological sex is male, or vice versa.
