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State of Washington to require LGBT+ history to be taught in schools (Original Post) shenmue Mar 2024 OP
Amazing what a little education can do! 70sEraVet Mar 2024 #1
Funding? Indigenous curriculum required but funding not allocated. So it wasn't widely implemented. cbabe Mar 2024 #2
This is great! Chi67 Mar 2024 #3
this . all of it . AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #5
love it. AllaN01Bear Mar 2024 #4

70sEraVet

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1. Amazing what a little education can do!
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 08:47 AM
Mar 2024
In schools where students learned about LGBTQ+ people, history and events, LGBTQ+ students were less likely to hear homophobic or transphobic remarks and less likely to miss school because they felt unsafe, according to a 2021 national survey from GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy group. Those students also had better mental health and academic performance, the survey found.

Additionally, LGBTQ+ middle and high school students who learned about LGBTQ+ history or people in class reported lower rates of suicide attempts in the last year, according to a 2023 study from the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ+ youth.

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