Using the word gay is used allot these days inside and outside of school. There are some people that may take it seriously and take it a step further then just depression to suicidal thoughts. Suicide is definitely not the answer to anything but if all his peers keep saying that he is gay there is really nothing he can do. That is why my opinion on the student who committed suicide at Rutgers University over the alleged outing of his sexuality, is that the school did the right thing afterwards creating doing "Project Civility".
It is sad that it took the life of a student for the school to recognize the damage that was being done, but the civility project was the right response. This project definitely changed how some kids acted and thought about gay people. If I made some one feel that bad by just calling them gay and they killed them, that would be enough to change how I acted. But for the kids that were not very affected by the suicide is the reason why this project was such a good idea.
The "Project Civility" shows that the school will take responsibility for their students. If the school did not do this project the students would still be calling each other gay, which might lead to more suicides. The school had a great response to the suicide.
The words gay and fag take little effort to say but they have a great affect on people, which is why "Project Civility" was made. Rutgers University had to take action on their students for causing a suicide. There is nothing better they could of done.
Your writing is awkward in places - words that don't really go together, etc. - but you make good points. Try to clean up your prose because when it's difficult to read, your ideas lose impact.
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