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a new study finds that students who are gay or thought to be gay are most likely to be targets

Why do we need a "study" to determine what anyone who has ever attended a public school already knows?

"Why do we need a "study" to determine what anyone who has ever attended a public school already knows?"

Too true.

Look, in school EVERYONE gets picked on. I was picked on and bullied UNMERCIFULLY for being short.

Short, fat, gay/effeminate, holy-roller, geek, nerd -- it all gets picked on and that's just part of life. It teaches kids that the world can be a cruel place and how to fight back. I don't buy this "don't pick on anyone..." stuff -- it's like giving a passing grade to everyone so they fell good.

I think there are rare occasions where teasing and bullying do rise to the level of legal harassment, but that should be a very high threshhold.