Comments on: Federal lawsuit filed over HIV+ student bullying

By: DeGuyz N Mississippi

DeGuyz N Mississippi — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:06:17 +0000

I would grab the entity by their financial throat and NOT let go. It’s not about the money, it is the only thing that the entities understand. You call the shots and you decide if and when it is resolved. Totally unacceptable for the school to have let this occur. They should be publically shamed and held accountable for their neglect.

By: Ashe13

Ashe13 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:42:38 +0000

Schools suck when it comes to protecting bullied minorities. They always say that they do their best to protect the students and have all these wonderfully written bullying policies, but they never do crap to enforce them.

My school recently enacted a brand-new bullying policy that is supposed to be comprehensive and help ‘protect all students so that they may learn in a peaceful, friendly atmosphere’. Yeah, right. That little piece of paper means sooo much when the person who wrote it, is the same person who censors anything to do with lgbt people, and finds any gay behavior to be ‘highly offensive’. I mean, come off your high horse. You don’t care about protecting me; you just like creating the illusion that you do.

By: enigma

enigma — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:16:36 +0000

I grew up in Indiana and remember Ryan White’s story; I was in middle school/high school when his battles were in the news. I am not surprised by the discrimination or harassment this poor girl deals with. What’s shocking to me is that it’s the same school district!

Sad how history repeats itself.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:19:49 +0000

It is little short of tragic that those charged with educating youth are often the ones who are bigots themselves and promote bigotry among students, as evidenced by these Indiana teachers. Granted, this is Indiana, not known for tolerant or broad minded people, but it is sad that students have to suffer because of the “educators” ignorance.

By: LOrion

LOrion — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:08:37 +0000

Now this is where Magic Johnson could help immensely. Why doesn’t he go talk to schools such as this one?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:29:15 +0000

this really pisses me off! schools say that they have do not tollerate things like this but that is a total lie. I am a 15 year old teenager and I am openly gay at my school. I barley get bullied about being gay, but I see the looks that teachers give me. anywhere you go, not only in a high school, you hear people say “thats so gay” or “hes being so gay” as an insult to someone and it makes me so mad, not that they say it, but the fact that the teachers hear it and will not do anything about it. I have teachers that make fun of gays, like my gym teacher. if we want to stop gay hate crimes and stop people using comments like that as insults then we need to take this to the schools! after all the kids now will be in controle of the world in the future.