Florida's plan for bullied LGBTQ kids? Send them to Christian schools.

[DonViejo]

By Alex Bollinger · Friday, August 10, 2018

This past March, Florida became the first state to create a private school voucher program just for bullied students.

The Hope Scholarship Program gives students who report being bullied $6,700 towards tuition at a private school, or $750 for transportation to another public school.

Anti-bullying activists in Florida opposed the bill, pointing out that bullying occurs in private schools at about the same rate as it does in public schools, that bullies will just pick new targets if their victims leave, and that private schools aren’t closely regulated when it comes to bullying so students will find they have few tools to remedy a situation at a private school.

Now a new analysis by the Huffington Post found that many of the private schools that students can attend in the program would just join in the bullying of LGBTQ students.

Around 70 private schools have signed up for the program to take in bullied public school students. Of these schools, 10% have explicit “zero tolerance” policies when it comes to homosexuality.

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/08/floridas-plan-bullied-lgbtq-kids-send-christian-schools/

[Solly Mack]

1. Beyond fucked up.

[riversedge]

2. A better way to go would to teach not to be bigots in ALL schools.

[Matthew28]

3. Religion

teaches hatred and control over other people lives.

They can't stop with only deriving comfort from their beliefs but have to hate other people with it too.

This is wrong beyond belief and needs to stop.