Worth NPR station last Thursday night dealt with Safe Schools for GLBT students. One caller, a teacher from Ft. Worth didn't see the need for special training on this topic. He thinks that teachers are handling it. Few of them have the tools to handle the bullying and many are oblivious to the fact that it is going on.
Bullying is difficult for all students.
They continue to suffer in silence until they can no longer keep it together. There is a terribly high dropout rate for glbt students. And then there is another alternative which is to go over the deep end and pull a Columbine or a Santana. As far as I am concerned, neither option is acceptable. Other school shootings, in recent days and in the past, have had eerily similar motivations.