Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Open Lives, Safe Schools is written for educators and others concerned about schooling, from kindergarten to graduate school. Anti-gay discrimination affects everyone in schools. The central premise of this diverse collection of essays is that everyone benefits when students, parents, educators, and others in the school community are allowed to live openly in terms of sexual orientation.In the final analysis, the authors of these essays are advocates of safe schools in the most basic sense of safety: Schools should be places where it is safe to be oneself.