Social Action Research Project

My major is Business Education so for my Social Action Research Project, I would like to research sexual orientation and it's affect on how well the student does in the classroom. I believe that students who are homosexual or bisexual may have difficulty in class because of bullying or problems at home that occurred because of their sexual orientation. The problems associated with being of a different sexual orientation may have decreased over the past decade or so because of more media and more celebrities showing a positive view of the subject so I could narrow the topic down more by focusing on the problem today and comparing it to 10 years ago. This topic is important to me because one of my best friends through my middle school years ended up “coming out” about being gay during our freshman year of high school. He was bullied a lot by our classmates. His grades suffered until he could not take it anymore and transferred to a different school. I would like to know more about this topic and maybe find some things that other educators have done to help students of sexual orientations to fit in with the student body more and feel as if they are not out of place. To conduct research about this topic I will do research online about statistics and interview homosexual and bisexual students and maybe even educators to see if they ever had to deal with this problem.