Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restroom

[romantico]

Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restroom #1

Posted: 5/2/09 at 11:30am

http://kentuckylgbt.org/ht/display/ReleaseDetails/i/1258265

Kentucky Equality Federation received reports that a Franklin County High official allegedly sent an email to teachers instructing them not to allow homosexuals to leave class to use the restroom.

The email was allegedly sent after two female classmates were caught kissing in the public restroom.

In response, 15 students protested outside the school today.

"My daughter was involved in a protest at Franklin County High School today for their right to use the restroom," stated Michelle Sexton.

"I have been in contact with one of the parents of the children involved in the protest and we support their constitutional right to assemble peacefully," stated Kentucky Equality Federation President Jordan Palmer. "We call on the media to investigate this issue further and shed light on the discrimination gays and lesbians face throughout the Commonwealth. Kentucky Equality Federation will also be contacting the other parents of the children involved in today's protest."

Though Superintendent Harrie Buecker stated steps are being taken to address the students' concerns, Kentucky Equality Federation is concerned they will not be addressed properly. Though not directly connected, Kentucky Equality Federation has received similar complaints in Casey, Pulaski, and Powell counties about unfair treatment of gay and lesbian students and teachers.

"I'd like to know what level this mentality, that gay and lesbian students should not be treated equally is coming from. An incident in one county could be called an isolated incident, but we now have similar reports in three other Kentucky Counties," stated Kentucky Equality Federation Managing Director Laura Reed

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/10749/kentucky-hs-assistant-principal-bans-gay-students-from-restroom

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Updated On: 5/2/09 at 11:30 AM

[Q]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restroom #2

Posted: 5/2/09 at 11:35am

*sigh*

[nmartin]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restroom #2

Posted: 5/2/09 at 12:32pm

I hate to break it to this Kentucky AP, but there is sexual activity at every school in the country. I teach at a public high school in the South, and we have a large out and proud group of lesbians. I've had to caution them about grabbing boobs while waiting for the bus as recently as yesterday.

[Jane2]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#3

Posted: 5/2/09 at 12:35pm

And how about all those straight couples we used to catch having sex on the stairways?

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

[nmartin]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#4

Posted: 5/2/09 at 12:42pm

Exactly, Jane. A few years ago we uncovered a prostitution ring operating in an empty room situated in a remote building. Those girls were turning tricks for twenty bucks a pop. That is far worse than two girls kissing in the w.c.

[PalJoey]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#5

Posted: 5/2/09 at 12:52pm

We're here. We're queer. We're peeing in your classroom!

[FindingNamo]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#6

Posted: 5/2/09 at 1:08pm

Stephen Fry should write those kids a letter.

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[PalJoey]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#7

Posted: 5/2/09 at 1:16pm

Or Jamie McGonigal.

[FindingNamo]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#8

Posted: 5/2/09 at 1:22pm

Jamie should produce a show there! Kentucky Fried Homophobes!

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[StockardFan]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#9

Posted: 5/2/09 at 2:07pm

PJ, you just made me LOL!

And besides the fact of the "kissing in the bathroom" (which really is it that big a deal?), you can't deny someone the right to pee if they have to.

KFTC!!!!!

[colleen_lee]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#10

Posted: 5/2/09 at 3:46pm

I think it's time we just ban all students from using the bathroom.

I'm being sarcastic, of course, but students abusing bathroom privileges is a problem in most schools in the country. In the middle school I teach at, the bathroom has become the main meet-up location. One person will send out a mass text to all their friends to meet in the bathroom at a certain time and they'll hang out in there skipping class.

"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. " --Sueleen Gay

[defyingravity07]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#11

Posted: 5/2/09 at 4:19pm

My school only unlocks one bathroom during the day & there is usually a teacher watching the bathroom & hall that it's in.

[nmartin]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#12

Posted: 5/2/09 at 4:21pm

Colleen, I can't tell you how many times I've had to go into the boys' bathroom and say, "Ok! Everybody out!"

[Pippin]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#13

Posted: 5/2/09 at 4:28pm

"Colleen, I can't tell you how many times I've had to go into the boys' bathroom and say, "Ok! Everybody out!"


Me too, but at Church organist conventions.

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[nmartin]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#14

Posted: 5/2/09 at 4:50pm

Pippin, that made me laugh!

[thetinymagic2]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#15

Posted: 5/2/09 at 5:28pm

WTF century are these people living in anyway? Get with it, anti-progressive, ignorant hicks. (Couldn't help being snarky this time.....)

[JohnBoy2]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#16

Posted: 5/3/09 at 2:34pm

Wait... when did high school kids get "constitutional rights"?!

[PalJoey]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#17

Posted: 5/3/09 at 3:45pm

When did they lose them?

[tazber]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#18

Posted: 5/3/09 at 5:41pm

This sounds less like discrimination and more like blatant abuse.

Denying people (children who the school is responsible for no less) access to a bathroom is cruel and humiliating.

If this really is what happened I hope there is a lawsuit.

....but the world goes 'round

[Eris0303]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#19

Posted: 5/3/09 at 5:45pm

"My school only unlocks one bathroom during the day & there is usually a teacher watching the bathroom & hall that it's in."

That's how my high school attempted to solve the smoking problem.

"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

[Unknown User]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#20

Posted: 5/4/09 at 11:15am

It's a privilege to pee! No more bathrooms like in olden days! I wish the principal had said "If you want to go, you have to go through me!"

[madbrian]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#21

Posted: 5/4/09 at 11:22am

So, the new acronym is DADP (Don't Ask, Don't Pee)?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[tazber]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#22

Posted: 5/4/09 at 11:58am

They just announced that Urinetown will be the Fall musical.

Many of the gay teens involved with the production are billing it as a true story.

....but the world goes 'round

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#23

Posted: 5/5/09 at 3:45pm

Tazber, is that true? If so, that's pretty awesome.

We have one openly gay student in our theatre department, and he uses the girls' bathroom and dressing room-- not by choice. It makes a lot of the girls uncomfortable simply because he's a boy, but the guys complained so much. (And I seriously doubt that this kid is the only gay actor at my school, either.)

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[Reginald Tresilian]

re: Kentucky HS assistant principal allegedly bans gay students from restro#24

Posted: 5/5/09 at 3:55pm

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