Mississippi school omits gay student

noonereal · #1 09-10-2010, 06:30 AM

http://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights...clude-everyone

Wesson Attendance Center, excluded Ceara Sturgis’ name and senior portrait from the yearbook rather than publish a photo of her in a tuxedo. She attended this school for 12 years and was an honors student. What is wrong with these people?

My question is,how can people be so scared of change?

whell · #2 09-10-2010, 08:01 AM

The school has rules. What she chose to wear for the photo was not in conformance with long - standing school rules. She was apparently informed of this and chose to submit that photo for the yearbook anyway. The school was operating within established norms for not publishing her picture.

Where they screwed up was leaving her out of the yearbook entirely. That smells like retribution / punishment. They certainly could have cited her in the yearbook, and simply omitted the photo. Omitting a photo is not uncommon, as sometimes students don't bother to turn in a photo for the yearbook. However, when that happens, the school will still include their information.

noonereal · #3 09-10-2010, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by whell

The school has rules. What she chose to wear for the photo was not in conformance with long - standing school rules. She was apparently informed of this and chose to submit that photo for the yearbook anyway. The school was operating within established norms for not publishing her picture.

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Legalities aside it was a homophobic response. Approximatively half the students wore tuxedos in the pictures why was this "individual" not allowed?

Can you offer me a reason you feel this individual indeed should not have been allowed to dress as half he student body did instead of arguing that it was technically OK for the school to omit her?

Sounds to me like a room full of homophobic folks want to avoid the 21st century.

merrylander · #4 09-10-2010, 09:08 AM

Among the "rules" providing an education, one would imagine, would be paramount, sadly they appear to be falling down badly at that task.

piece-itpete · #5 09-10-2010, 09:22 AM

We have to allow crossdressing in school now or we're homophobes?

Rob, ask them about diversity, they'll have the answers, ask about the number of Senators they might have a problem

Pete

merrylander · #6 09-10-2010, 09:27 AM

Cross dressing? Hell of a lot of women out there wearing suits, are they all cross dressing?

I would just be happy if they could construct a basic English sentence.

noonereal · #7 09-10-2010, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

We have to allow crossdressing in school now or we're homophobes?

Women have been cross dressing since the sixties. Why not in the yearbook in 2010?
And yes, paying attention to a guy wearing florals or a women wearing a tux is indeed homophobic. Least to me it is. Why the heck would anyone care one way or another. Clothing is no more than tribal bonding as are tattoos and piercings.

Sometimes I think part of this country still lives in Beavers neighborhood.

Time is change you can't stop it all you can do is help steer it.

piece-itpete · #8 09-10-2010, 09:45 AM

Heck I'm not afraid of a bunch of freaks

Pete

noonereal · #9 09-10-2010, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Heck I'm not afraid of a bunch of freaks

Pete

Good, we agree. The girl should have been allowed to wear the tux and then you can call her names.

whell · #10 09-10-2010, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by noonereal

Women have been cross dressing since the sixties. Why not in the yearbook in 2010?
And yes, paying attention to a guy wearing florals or a women wearing a tux is indeed homophobic. Least to me it is. Why the heck would anyone care one way or another. Clothing is no more than tribal bonding as are tattoos and piercings.

Sometimes I think part of this country still lives in Beavers neighborhood.

Time is change you can't stop it all you can do is help steer it.

No, but rules are rules. If the parents don't like to rules, there's a process to petition the school board to change the rules. But there's nothing that suggests, or would be gained, by allowing one student doing whatever he/she wants to do, if school policy / rules dictate otherwise.

For example, most public schools now prohibit prayer in one form or another. I guess it should be OK if one student wants to pray that we should just go ahead and let them, rules be damned.