Comments on: Settlement in lesbian student harassment case

By: erin b

erin b — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:30:38 +0000

im definitely happy to see some justice….way to stand up and speak out huni…and u cute….u bettr get it…

By: Jason21TX

Jason21TX — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:20:24 +0000

The aliens are the people who check their brains with their coat when they enter the homophobic churches.

This is a step forward. And the teacher should have been tossed out the dcor with the old “move quickly so you don’t get the doorknob giving you your sexual thrill up your ass.*

*Which would apply equally if she tripped and it hit her in the head.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:58:21 +0000

Stories like this make me sad more then anything else. Being LGBT is not a disease that you can catch from being around someone who is. To deny a student the right to enter a locker room is deplorable. And things like this and worse happen all the time. Even with all of the progress that we have made, there are still not enough people standing up for equality. These people deserve to pay 20 times over for what they have done. I mean…we are not aliens.

By: KaninZ

KaninZ — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:46:04 +0000

“You’re going to get this treatment your whole life. What are you going to do, stand up every time?”

May the answer to this always be a resounding HELL YES!

By: John

John — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:15:41 +0000

The Vallejo Unified School District has a long history when it comes to hiring anti-gay teachers and administrators. This isn’t the first publicized incident of harrassment.

Vallejo is divided roughly equally between African Americans, Filipinos, and Hispanics. It was always an impoverished ghetto. But the economic crisis has made the sitution even more dire. Vallejo made headlines last year when it became the first California municipality to declare bankruptcy. Frankly, the county government and/or state legislature should end “home rule” there. The city is a cesspool of mismanagement, crime, and corruption. Time for Sacramento to appoint a special prosecutor or manager to take out the trash.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:42:29 +0000

Hmmm, portable mp3 players that act as a recorder. That would be your proof and it’s very easy to conceal. Settlement my ass. The fact of the matter is they violated state law and should have been punished with a big fat award going to this girl.

By: JulieCarr

JulieCarr — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:51:17 +0000

“You’re going to get this treatment your whole life. What are you going to do, stand up every time?”

Yes, actually, it look like Rochelle will stand up every time.

And Kudos to her.

She will only get ‘the treatment her whole life’ from someone else regardless, so, YES, if I were Rochelle, I may have said ‘Of course I will stand. Would not you?’

By: mike/

mike/ — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:26:07 +0000

i certainly hope that part of the settlement, if the district didn’t already do it, was firing the counselor. this was a breach not only of ethical treatment but also against the law and the rules of responsibility for the counseling organizations of the US. a person like this should NOT be working with any child – lgbtq or not! as a former school administrator, i would have him/her up on charges instantly. if the district won’t do it because of his/her reprehensible actions, they should do it because he/she has just cost them ten, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars.

By: Jessica K

Jessica K — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:59:10 +0000

“You’re going to get this treatment your whole life. What are you going to do, stand up every time?”

Yes Mr. Counselor we will, Every time, Every where and for Every one!

By: vanndean

vanndean — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:39:17 +0000

The things we do to children in the name of religion.