Students across Alberta stage walk out to protest expected gay-straight alliance changes

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The school clubs are meant to be a safe space for LGBTQ students, and prevent bullying and harassment

Throngs of teenagers spilled out onto the sidewalk outside Western Canada High School in Calgary, where they chanted and held colourful signs.Cars and trucks along a busy thoroughfare near downtown honked and a cluster of adults stood nearby cheering and holding signs in support.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said during the election campaign his United Conservative government would replace the NDP-drafted education law with older unproclaimed legislation. That would have the effect of undoing several GSA provisions, including a ban on schools informing parents if their children join such a club.

“Teachers are people that we’re supposed to trust and they’re people that we should be comfortable telling about everything that we’re going through,” said Aimee, a Grade 10 student who organized the walkout.“I think that if teachers are the ones telling parents, then that is the most impersonal way to come out. Not only is it not safe for everyone, but it also should be up to the individual themselves to decide when.

 

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news flash. Kids will walk out for anything. Why, because there easily influenced by anything. This is why its the parents responsibility to raise them in such away that they are not easily influenced by sheep mentality.

Was this an all girls school?

Anyone who believes a child's parent shoud not be told when they join a GSA is far more dangerous to that child than some random parent may be

Conservatives need to leave their religion out of the gov

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