And I obviously can’t count. He spelled four words correctly. I guess my school didn’t do a very good job with me!!
Slumps out of room, beaten and bloody.
Well, first, what is the suit about, what law was broken?
Second, what about the judges who will hear the case, will they be sympathetic to the teacher/school or the child/child family?
Third, noticed what’s been going on in this country lately?
Miller and Noone Special got this in one, neither of those people should be teaching our children.
About the spelling, he’s spelling very phonetically, “sed” and “wurds” for example. Not knowing much about early education, is this a product of how he’s being taught to read and write, or is it typical misspelling by a kid that age?
Someone really needs to be sacked for this.
What if the teacher was just enforcing school policy?
Then the people who set the school policy need to be sacked.
Then we sack the policymakers.
“The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.”
Sorry, just thought I’d lighten the mood a bit because this story is bloody depressing. Any of the right wingers on this board who constantly argue that gay people are merely imagining an atmosphere of hate should have this story burned into their memories.
:rolleyes:
quote from the PlanetOut.com article
Marcus’s final humiliation came during a one-hour “behavior clinic,” where he was obliged to write repeatedly: “I will never use the word ‘gay’ in school again,” the ACLU reports.
Evidently, it’s wrong to SAY the ‘bad word’ in school, and it’s acceptable to have administrators force you to WRITE it repeatedly.
:wally
What a load of horseshit. Instead of teaching the fucking kid to spell correctly, they are taking him to task over this. Unbelievable.
I really wish I could escape the planet right now.
Horrible. And he wasn’t skipping around the room waving a rainbow flag, throwing copies of ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’ to the other kids*, he was just answering another kid’s question. And a public school, paid for by taxpayers, some of whom may even be that word! And having to write a phrase like that for punishment, and then go home to his ‘unspeakable’ mommies!
And it’s obvious they’re not getting their value for money with the spelling lessons either.
- Not that somebody should get into serious trouble for that either, but it’s kinda over the top unless it’s Show & Tell day.
Am I the only one who thinks this is really, really funny?
Wait, what do you mean the article wasn’t from The Onion?
Let me ask a question here. Everytime I hear one of these cases, every person I know is outraged, so who the hell is making these stupid policies?
The teacher and administrators are clearly wrong for how they’ve handled this. However, I’m a little confused at why the mothers permitted the “disciplinary action” taken by the teacher/administrator. The article says the action took place a week after the offense. His mothers apparently knew that the teachers and/or administrators planned to have him write “I will never use the word `gay’ in school again” repeatedly.
I don’t understand why the Moms permitted Marcus to be subjected to it.
These policies are made by people who think this is the consensus “morality” of their community, because not enough people speak up against the status quo. This is one of those rare situations in which not being a part of the solution–i.e., remaining silent; conniving at the status quo–is literally being a part of the problem; the rare case in which inaction is actively retrogressive. Silence = same old shit.
I’m embarassed to live on the same planet as that woman, let alone in the same state.
I don’t know the circumstances in this school district but it’s fairly common for religious conservatives to make concerted efforts to flood school boards in order to change policy. I believe it was part of what Ralph Reed once described as a “stealth” campaign to influence public policy.
BTW, I once spent a year as an educational assistant in a second grade classroom in St. Paul. The attrocious spelling is pretty typical. Ironically, the kids who tended to be the best spellers were largely the children of Asian immigrants (specifically Hmong in that school) who had learned English as a second language.
Well, my first thought was, maybe the school policy is against using “gay” as a slur, and there’s a zero-tolerance enforcement. I’ve enforced such a policy with the little boys in my various RPGs, and I could see myself overreacting.
The evidence seems to belie my theory though. I join the chorus of the aghast, and send a prayer of appreciation to my redneck North Carolinian high school teacher, who brought in Ellen’s “I’m Gay” Times and screamed “Gay people are just like everyone else, so be nice!” at all of us. And I… I… I agree with lissener.
county, try reading the cite before talking out of your ass.
You know, just for a change of pace.