Posted by:
paintinginthewin
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Date: November 06, 2010 06:29PM
Gay & lesbian & bisexual teens have rights to a bully free environment & they can tell their school counselor or any teacher re intimidation or sexual harrassment requiring expulsion of those doing the bullying. If that harrassment is within the home it is possible that CPS in my state would intervene. If a 5150 intervention were required and sexual harrassment issues either at school or at home come up group home or safe housing in a safe environment SHOULD be a legal requirement.
That said- due process is everything. due process for the teen & due process is & should be everything. all teens need to be supported in their due process rights as are their families. Outside individuals have no legal right to interfere with families parenting their teens-until a court grants custody of a kind to them, or running an intervention program at a community center for said purpose within legal due process- respecting both teens & parents legal due process rights as they now stand.
Private non profit agencies run & you might be interested in supporting & establishing more: group homes for teens, foster care for teens, social work and social services for teens, after school drop in centers for teens, community centers for teens, home less shelters for run away & out of control teens, charter schools and magnet programs for teens, vocational programs for teens, counseling groups of teens- the list of possible ways to help- goes on and on.
/did you know-
The state holds parents legally accountable for school attendance (can SARB them, fine them, even sentence them to jail time for not having teenage minor students attend school.)
Wow did you know that?
so a teenager might not LIKE that, might not accept school rules, requirements they pass tests or do homework or attend in order to pass classes & get credit. How unpleasant is that? & they have to get of bed- to be to class on time or - get detention. & if they attend using alchol or drugs- well they face disciplinary consequences.
& if the parent does not comply with state laws on forcing their teen to comply with school attendance they the parent faces court proceedings. Did you know that?
meanwhile the parent of the teenager is required by law to live with this juvenile- no matter how obviously annoying he or she is, or to provide (financially support & arrange) housing and supervision for him or her elsewhere- despite how obviously annoying, rude, irritable, or uncivilized or self centered any of his/her tendencies are at times.
How would you be able to tell - that you weren't supporting a minor's refusal to be responsible or live responsibly, not be a school truant, etc.? How would you be able to tell you weren't an adult aiding and assisting a minor to underaged drinking (illegal in many states) underaged drug use (illegal in all states) just because they said they didn't believe in the word of wisdom anymore.
Does that mean they want to drink coffee to you? when a mormon teen says they want to break the word of wisdom you think its drinking coffee?
you can't believe its appropriate for adults outside one's family to aide and abet underaged drinking and partying- it isn't.
who is to say a person rebelling against parental authority- to go to sleep in their own bed each night, to get up and go to school, to do laundry or wear clean clothes, to not flunk out of school, to speak with civility to their mother when setting those boundaries & not cuss or swing at her, to avoid illegal actions the parent does not sanction like stealing or driving other people's vehicles without their permission, or using grandma's credit card to buy things online, ---
who is to say that a person rebelling against all these annoying things- won't make the church (which asks you not to steal, don't cuss at people telling you what to do, don't drink when you're underage at all) into a scapegoat in their manipulation of the situation to be free of the annoyance, of the inconvenience, of the rules of a parent?
seriously- what a risk.
I think a safehouse for teens annoyed with their parents enforcing rules who are also disbelieving in the church is a bad idea.
Gay lesbian Bisexual teens have more working against them than parents' ideas about the church- they need and legally are entitled to a safe workplace, a bully free, emotionally safe secure refuge in their public high school- a refuge including a Gay Straight Alliance club on campus with an advocating safety securing club advisor.