Teens Hear Hate-Speech In School ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - The Riot Youth is a group for gay kids. And the group got a couple of grants to make a survey. The survey has questions like "How often do you hear that's so gay?'" "How often do you hear that's so ghetto?'" "How often do teachers intervene when someone says something like that?"

The Riot Youth surveyed twelve-hundred high school students in Ann Arbor. Alex Kulick is with the group. He says they wanted to find out how many kids hear hate speech in their schools. And compare who feels safe to who doesn't feel safe.

He says the survey found that the straight kids felt safe in school, as opposed to many of the gay kids who did not feel safe.


Kulick says it was not easy getting the surveys into the schools. He says several nearby schools have expressed an interest in the survey, but other schools were resistant to the idea.
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