The Best "It gets better" Video ever!

• hikerC
  
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  Oct 15, 2010 1:32 AM GMT

  Hey Guys, sorry if this has already been shared, but I saw it tonight and wanted to make sure you all saw this. I had a rough time as a teen, but I held my head up high and tried to be as happy as possible. And, it DOES get better, it really does! This is a little long, but worth the watch! I bet thousands of kids are feeling better after watching this, and I am sure that he has stopped more kids from killing themselves.
  
  

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  Oct 15, 2010 1:57 AM GMT

  That was very moving. Thank you for sharing this.
  
  You are right, this is the best one I have seen. It is by far the most honest and sincere video I have seen. Amen to Joel Burns, you are awesome!

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  Oct 15, 2010 2:13 AM GMT

  perfectly from the heart....keith

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• hikerC
  
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  Oct 15, 2010 11:30 PM GMT

  Just watched it again, what an amazing guy!

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:19 AM GMT

  I do think this is the best one I have seen. My heart breaks for those kids that are living through this right now. I love kids and I wish there was something I could do to help them.

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:24 AM GMT

  It's gone viral. They guy made CNN, and it was a great video. He's put himself on the national stage and will benefit from this personally and professionally.
  
  I would vote for the guy in a second after that. One nice thing are the positive comments on the CNN story. Usually things like that bring out the haters in hordes, even on CNN. This guy got alot of support.

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:28 AM GMT

  I just watched this and came here to see if it was already posted. This guy is absolutely amazing. Seeing this actually makes me start to belive that this whole "It gets better" movement will have an even bigger impact than I first expected, thank you Joel Burns.

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:33 AM GMT

  Very moving, indeed. Saw this at the coffeehouse yesterday and had to hold myself back from tearing up. I love how viral it got on Facebook overnight.

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:34 AM GMT

  After watching this...
  
  Please pull your GAY TEENS OUT OF SCHOOL if they are being harassed!!!
  
  With recent light being shone on gay teens committing suicide, I suddenly realized something that happened to me that I hope to spread the message for other parents to do.
  
  My mother actively sought to pull me out of high school. I'm not sure the exact details on what happened, but between her and my high school counselor, they took me out of high school after the end of 10th grade and pushed me straight into community college. I'm not sure how much of this was due to my intellect (was in honors), or how much was due to the fact that I was harassed for being gay in 10th grade. But I'm pretty damn grateful this happened. I never got to the point of being suicidal, but I know if I had stayed in high school some terrible shit would have happened. The end of 10th grade reached culmination, as I successfully outran two separate incidents of homophobes waiting for me at my house when I came home from school.
  
  So yeah, you have the option of PULLING your kids OUT of school. Most school districts are incompetent and it's best you put your child's mental well-being in your own hands than rely on a bunch of aloof school legislators.

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:41 AM GMT

  JAKEBENSON saidAfter watching this...
  
  Please pull your GAY TEENS OUT OF SCHOOL if they are being harassed!!!
  
  With recent light being shone on gay teens committing suicide, I suddenly realized something that happened to me that I hope to spread the message for other parents to do.
  
  My mother actively sought to pull me out of high school. I'm not sure the exact details on what happened, but between her and my high school counselor, they took me out of high school after the end of 10th grade and pushed me straight into community college. I'm not sure how much of this was due to my intellect (was in honors), or how much was due to the fact that I was harassed for being gay in 10th grade. But I'm pretty damn grateful this happened. I never got to the point of being suicidal, but I know if I had stayed in high school some terrible shit would have happened. The end of 10th grade reached culmination, as I successfully outran two separate incidents of homophobes waiting for me at my house when I came home from school.
  
  So yeah, you have the option of PULLING your kids OUT of school. Most school districts are incompetent and it's best you put your child's mental well-being in your own hands than rely on a bunch of aloof school legislators.

  
  
  YOUR MOTHER IS A ROCK STAR!!! God Bless her and may she somehow be a role model for the millions of parents who are so often stuck in their own pyschological noise that they forget that the protection of the children they brought into the world must come first (yes they must be aware of what is going on with them). I know it is ideal but these two example can give us hope.

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:46 AM GMT

  i cried watching this video.even tho im not 17 or in high school my own dad called me a queer and faggot so i know how that feels and i been threw the suicide also,this is so sad that so many kids r killing themselves

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:47 AM GMT

  An elected official with some backbone...who knew?

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  Oct 16, 2010 12:54 AM GMT

  ahhhh this whole video just made me cry. :,(...i need to take a nap now.

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  Oct 16, 2010 1:05 AM GMT

  That was so powerful, he gives me hope for the future, for a politician to be so honest.

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