Every day that Sarah goes to school she is insulted.
She is told that she is hated. She is told that there is something wrong with her. She is told that she is inferior to her schoolmates. Others laugh at the insults, only making it worse.
The words hurt but they go unpunished. In fact, occasionally a teacher will slight her as well.
"Sometimes it feels like a gauntlet," the Burlington high school student says.
It's the type of environment the provincial safe schools policy was meant to eliminate. Yet it happens. Perhaps the reason it does is that Sarah's schoolmates don't even know they are insulting her -- although sometimes they do right to her face. That's because few of them know Sarah is a lesbian.
