Students at Portola Middle School Take Part in a Day Of Silence Get ready for the campus to be a little quieter. On Friday, April 15th,students at Portola will join students across the nation in a Day of Silence to protest the discrimination, harassment and abuse-in effect the silencing-faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and their allies in schools.

The Day of Silence is one way students and their allies are making anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and name-calling unacceptable in American's schools.

About the Day of Silence

The Day of Silence is a nationwide, student-led event during which hundreds of high schools and colleges protest the oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. For more information, visit www.dayofsilence.org .

Tips for students:

If you want to stay quiet during class on Day of Silence, we recommend that you talk with your teachers ahead of time, tell them that you plan to participate in Day of Silence and why it's important to you, and ask them if it would be okay for you to communicate in class on that day in writing. Most teachers will probably say yes.

Students should be sure to inform their parents of their decision to participate in Day of Silence.