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Title: Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
Post by: Butterfly on December 24, 2007, 12:01:37 PM
Post by: Butterfly on December 24, 2007, 12:01:37 PM
Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=70&id=17619
By Ann Turner
December 24 2007
The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding an apology from a Virginia high school for punishing a student who wore a lesbian t-shirt to class. I.C. Norcom High School officials threatened the 17-year-old senior with suspension for wearing a shirt featuring an image of two overlapping female gender symbols.
http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=70&id=17619
By Ann Turner
December 24 2007
The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding an apology from a Virginia high school for punishing a student who wore a lesbian t-shirt to class. I.C. Norcom High School officials threatened the 17-year-old senior with suspension for wearing a shirt featuring an image of two overlapping female gender symbols.
Title: Re: Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
Post by: Kat on December 24, 2007, 12:05:44 PM
Post by: Kat on December 24, 2007, 12:05:44 PM
a shirt with two overlapping female symbols distracted a teacher enough that it impaired her ability to teach? ::)
Title: Re: Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
Post by: mickiejr1815 on December 24, 2007, 12:55:01 PM
Post by: mickiejr1815 on December 24, 2007, 12:55:01 PM
that is complete bs and we all know it!! the teacher is the one with the real problem!!!
Title: Re: Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
Post by: Purple Pimp on December 24, 2007, 01:46:54 PM
Post by: Purple Pimp on December 24, 2007, 01:46:54 PM
Yeah, the US sucks for minors. No real free speech till you're 18, the school has the right to suppress what they see fit to suppress.
Title: Re: Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
Post by: NicholeW. on December 24, 2007, 01:52:08 PM
Post by: NicholeW. on December 24, 2007, 01:52:08 PM
I find the teacher disingenuous. I suspect what "interfered with her ability to teach" was her own personal arousal at a lesbian. Of course, she isn't likely to sat THAT.
So, absent her being a complete idiot and saying that was what the problem was, I imagine that the student will not be wearing that shirt to class there anymore.
Sad, but true, that one person's displeasure with another's orientation when the displeased one is in a 'power-over' position in a school will normally mean that the one with less power will toe-the-line.
Nichole
So, absent her being a complete idiot and saying that was what the problem was, I imagine that the student will not be wearing that shirt to class there anymore.
Sad, but true, that one person's displeasure with another's orientation when the displeased one is in a 'power-over' position in a school will normally mean that the one with less power will toe-the-line.
Nichole
Title: Re: Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
Post by: LostInTime on December 24, 2007, 02:39:29 PM
Post by: LostInTime on December 24, 2007, 02:39:29 PM
They see lesbianism as a sex act rather than a statement of love. Again, projecting their own fetishes on those who they are able to grind down into the ground. The teacher needs some serious counseling or will eventually harm a student.
Title: Re: Virginia High School Student Punished for Wearing Lesbian T-Shirt
Post by: tekla on December 24, 2007, 06:47:59 PM
Post by: tekla on December 24, 2007, 06:47:59 PM
Pretty mind blowing. Get the thought-crimes people on it right now.