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DuPage schools try to build tolerance through language.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-JAN-05
Format: Online - approximately 523 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: DuPage schools try to build tolerance through language.(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Kari Allen and Catherine Edman Daily Herald Staff Writers

Sometimes high school students utter the words without even thinking.

They'll say "that's so gay" about something they don't like or use words that are derogatory to homosexuals, said Naperville Central senior Ashley Keyser, a member of her school's Gay-Straight Alliance.

That's why the group is trying to make administrators, teachers and students more aware of the language sometimes heard at the high school - words and...

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