Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAEKN2X07167; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:23:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:23:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20021114122212.009eacf0@mail.aracnet.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Sylvan Rainwater <sylvan@cccchs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2410] Re: % of lgbt in adult literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 23 At 02:40 PM 11/14/2002 -0500, bkworm@ix.netcom.com wrote: >How do you propose to identify them? > >pam in dallas That, of course, is the problem, and it's been addressed by several here, including me. Basically, though, I think that as teachers we just need to find ways to get to know our students, primarily by creating a space that's safe enough for people to share things like this that may be important to them and affecting their lives. On a more global level, identifying such students can be problematic for all sorts of reasons. If we were simply trying to gather information about numbers, some sort of confidential/anonymous survey might make sense, though those have difficulties as well. And, as I and others have suggested, we need to be clear about our purpose for doing so, and what we would do with that information. -------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvan Rainwater . sylvan@cccchs.org Clackamas County Children's Commission Oregon City, OR USA
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