If we could get the words 'faggot' and 'homo' out of the schools, it could change the world in some small way. Littrell outlined several laws that help protect students from harassment, including Title IX and the Equal Protection clause of the United States and Georgia constitutions. Title IX bars discrimination on the basis of sex by allowing or creating a sexual hostile environment or sexual stereotyping. Students and parents should take note of what is happening in the classroom. In order to bring a case against a school board, however, several requirements must be proven.
Parents have the responsibility to call the principal or the school board and document it.
In addition to actual notice, there must be proof of deliberate indifference and actual impediment to equal opportunity to education. This means that the child's complaint was ignored, basically. Moving the victim to another class, for example, is not good enough. With actual impediment to equal opportunity to education, this means the child really got abused as evident by grades plummeting or dropping out of school. Under the Equal Protection clause, schools must have a rational basis for treating students harassed because of sexual orientation differently than students harassed for other reasons.