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December 1987 AIDS Education page 5
TIm GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROMULGATES
A POLICY STATEMENT ON AIDS
The Georgia Department of Education recently promulgated a policy statement
on AIDS. Major provisions include: no infected student will be denied an
education solely because of infection with AIDS, and a determination will be
made in each case as to whether an infected child will be educated in the
regular school program or in a special setting; testing of a student or
employee for AIDS may be required by a local school sys't.em, following
specified procedures; all information about persons infected or suspected of
being infected with AIDS will be maintained in a strictly confidential
manner; each school system must provide AIDS education programs to its
students, teachers and employees.
If you would like to receive a copy of the Georgia policy statement, send
your request with a stamped 39 cent business envelope to:
National Professional Resources, Inc.
P.O. Box 1479
Port Chester, New York 10573.
ADOl.FSCENTS
AND HOMOSEXUALITY
Gayand lesbian adolescents at that stage of development when young people
are especially vulnerable to social pressure now are having to deal with the
additional threat of AIDS.
To deal with the question of "coming outil,the painful process of accepting
one's homosexuality and revealing it to family and friénds, young people
now, with the advent of AIDS, face more difficulty and abuse than in the
recent past.
The open discussion of AIDS in the past two years has promoted more
enlightenment about homosexuality but also has come to be a weapon used to
ridicule and abuse homosexuals. Young homosexuals who come out are at high
risk not only for AIDS, but for being turned out of their homes, for
becoming targets of ostracism, violence and abuse, and for suicide.
All this is complicated by the typical adolescent sense of invulnerability;
gay teenagers may see themselves as invulnerable to AIDS in the same way
that heterosexual teens feel that they are immune to pregnancy.
Source: Newsday, November 10, 1987.
NETWORKING
The editors of AIDS Edu~ation would like to receive information about
policies and procedures developed by your organization that would be of
value to our readers. Credit to your authors/organization will be -given for
those items that we use.
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