Wed., October 21, 2009

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- We went over what happened this Monday for the WHS Coming Out Day [We passed out info about National Coming Out Day and our GSA]
- Sadly, apparently, not many people noticed our table. I myself, had I not been RIGHT NEXT TO IT, would have walked by without noticing it.
- Overall, the whole event didn’t go as planned majorly because we didn’t get the news out sooner [Give me a big sarcastic “thanks!” because I was in charge of making the posters. So I’m sorry that I messed up. I was busy >.<]
- We had the elections for 2 positions. Well, two positions that were already filled, but now it’s all official and stuff :) Jake is our Assistant Fearless Leader [vice-president] and I’m your Secretary.
- We read a packet called “the Gay and Lesbian Students Rights Law.” You, too, can read it here: http://www.mass.gov/cgly/TheGayandLesbianStudentsRightsLaw.html
- After reading it, we had a discussion about it and talked about the suggestions that were brought up in the packet.

We should think about:
- We seriously NEED to make a large GSA poster on one of those tri-board things. My poster fails at being big, sturdy, and visible.
- At some point we can perhaps type us the mission statement of the Westborough Schools and post it up on the GSA board. To clarify for those of you who don’t read your handbook, that mission statement says, “Westborough Public Schools do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.” You can find that on the first page of your handbook, down at the bottom.
- get a speaker to come in and speak about the law. It would only be for the GSA though. Some possible ideas for speakers: someone from the GLSEN, or if we could get a congressman to somehow come in that would be great!
- I don’t know if this would be possible, but maybe David T. can write about this law in the school newspaper for the November-December edition? ^__^ Just a suggestion.
- And finally, we should ask the principal to send out / forward an email to all the teachers that could ask them to look out for derogatory remarks made in the halls towards anyone. So basically, we want him to tell all the teachers to be stricter about enforcing the mission statement and try to discourage slurs, innuendos, and other unwelcome remarks.
- Anything you guys want to talk about – assuming it’s a relevant topic, of course!

Thanks to all who attended~!! :)