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Non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities in Schools: - Schools Out

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AM: It’s school policy it’s not Government policy.<br />

SJ: It’s ur it’s not, it’s quite common as well for bullies to actually feel, to get quite upset<br />

with themselves when they realise how they’ve made the other person feel. And um so it<br />

does really work. So that’s that. From the pupils po<strong>in</strong>t of view um [//] yeah I th<strong>in</strong>k as staff<br />

we make it very clear. They have a lot of assemblies based on bully<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> I th<strong>in</strong>k pupils,<br />

I th<strong>in</strong>k, I would like to th<strong>in</strong>k, that the pupils are very aware of what happens, what they<br />

should do if they see any bully<strong>in</strong>g, if they’re suffer<strong>in</strong>g from bully<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> what happens if<br />

[//] if they are, if it is be<strong>in</strong>g dealt with my members of staff, I th<strong>in</strong>k they are quite clear on<br />

that as far as I’m aware.<br />

AM: That’s good. What about if staff were be<strong>in</strong>g bullied, either by other staff or by<br />

students?<br />

SJ: [//] I don’t know to be honest with you, I don’t know.<br />

AM: that’s <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g. I mean obviously if a member of staff experienced bully<strong>in</strong>g they’d<br />

probably seek to f<strong>in</strong>d out what they could do about it.<br />

SJ: Mmm, yeah I mean we, we’ve got, we’ve all got l<strong>in</strong>e managers obviously <strong>and</strong> they<br />

are the people that you would go to.<br />

AM: Yep.<br />

SJ: So, for example I’d go to my head of department um <strong>and</strong> then she would do, she<br />

would help me deal with it from there. Um but then I suppose you just, it’s just pot luck<br />

as to who your head of, who your l<strong>in</strong>e manager is <strong>and</strong> whether you feel comfortable<br />

talk<strong>in</strong>g to them about it (sigh) I don’t know if there’s like a welfare person <strong>in</strong> our school<br />

or someth<strong>in</strong>g, I would have thought there must be <strong>in</strong> a school our size, but I’m not aware<br />

of who they are if there is.<br />

AM: Ok, that’s <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g, um.<br />

SJ: I know who my union rep is though, so I suppose that’s another person that I would<br />

go to if there was an issue.<br />

AM: what union are you with?<br />

SJ: The NASWAT, that one.<br />

AM: Yeah. I don’t know whether you are aware but they are actually, well most of the<br />

unions are, but NASUWT <strong>in</strong> particular are very good on LGBT issues um I’ve discovered<br />

<strong>in</strong> talk<strong>in</strong>g with some of their um um not members but like people who run them over the<br />

past few months. OK, so that’s your school policies which, which actually sound really<br />

good [//] compared to some other school policies. I wonder what you know about<br />

Government backed campaigns <strong>and</strong> policies at the moment that protect staff <strong>and</strong> students<br />

from particularly homophobic, biphobic <strong>and</strong> transphobic bully<strong>in</strong>g? If anyth<strong>in</strong>g.

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