Grey’s Anatomy, GLSEN & No Name-Calling Week
by Matt | January 22nd, 2007 |
This week, Monday, January 22 - Friday, January 26, 2007, marks No Name-Calling Week, a project of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
According to the National No Name-Calling Week website, the project “is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities.”
I guess there isn’t a more perfect time for anti-gay slur-throwing Isaiah Washington of the hit ABC show Grey’s Anatomy to be meeting with GLSEN’s executive director (and Winston-Salem, NC-native) Kevin Jennings, now is there?
According to a January 20th article from The Washington Post, Washington will be meeting with Jennings today, Monday, January 22, 2007, at the beginning of National No Name-Calling Week:
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network said Friday that Washington plans to meet with executive director Kevin Jennings on Monday, the first day of the organization’s “No Name-Calling Week.”
The day before the Post article, GLSEN released a press statement regarding No Name-Calling Week entitled, “Isaiah Washington’s Comments, Apology Highlight Need for GLSEN’s No Name-Calling Week, Jan. 22-26.”
I’m kind of curious, though: Did Jennings and GLSEN approach Washington or did Washington approach Jennings and GLSEN after the release of their press statement? Boy, how I’d love to just be a “fly on the wall” sometimes. I guess that’s just my nosey, gossippy Southern nature.
Organizational partners in GLSEN’s No-Name Calling Week include a myriad of organizations including, but definitely not limited to, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of School Nurses, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of Social Workers, National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE), National Conference for Community and Justice, National Education Association, National Mental Health Association, National Middle School Association and the National School Board Association.
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