Posted on 02/25/2005 3:21:13 PM PST by SmithL
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. - County school officials are backing a principal's decision to bar a picture of a lesbian student dressed in a tuxedo from the high school yearbook.
Sam Ward, principal of Fleming Island High School, said he pulled the senior class picture because Kelli Davis was wearing boy's clothes. His decision was debated Thursday at a Clay County school board meeting that drew 200 people, but the board took no action, and Superintendent David Owens said the decision will stand.
Most of the 24 people who spoke at the meeting supported Kelli Davis.
"This is not to be treated as a gay rights issue," said her mother, Cindi Davis. "Rather it's a human rights issue."
Others applauded Ward's decision, including Karen Gordon, who said, "When uniformity is compromised, then authority no longer holds."
Officials at the northeastern Florida school have said the picture was pulled from the yearbook because Davis did not follow the rules on dress. School board attorney Bruce Bickner said there is no written dress code for senior pictures, but principals have the authority to set standards.
The student editor of the yearbook, Keri Sewell, was fired after refusing her adviser's order to take the picture out.
Yeah, you know the torture that happened here and all that.
If she was truly avoiding showing her bare skin, she should
have worn a crew-neck sweater.
By dressing like the boys in her class, she is trying
to make a political point.
The nation would be destroyed if this silly "free expression" thing were allowed to get out of hand. Letting someone wear what they want in their high school yearbook picture--can't have that! All the yearbooks would be overrun with pictures of...of people in clothes they choose to wear! This is America, we can't allow people wear clothes!
--since I believed that the kid a few months ago should have been able to have the yearbook picture with his shotgun over his shoulder, I agree wholeheartedly with you--
Well where would you suggest we draw the line on normalizing homosexuality?
Or a chador.
--and it wasn't a problem for the class of '58, Livingston H.S., because our pix were all neck-up---
These school officials are pretty sharp these days. Back in my day they missed keeping Jack Mehoff's picture from getting into the yearbook.
Not at cutting a young woman out of her yearbook because she dares to wear-gasp!-a jacket and tie. Granted, it's a huge risk to national security, but...
What the males do is disgusting and unnatural--the females are fun to watch---
Let's just use a little common sense here and if this girl wants her picture in a permanent High School Annual for the rest of eternity then do it. Who is this really hurting? Answer no one. All these people need to get a life and quit making a mountain out of a mole hill and move on.
FMCDH(BITS)
FMCDH(BITS)
I agree.
This is just plain ignorant.........
Sam Ward, principal of Fleming Island High School, said he pulled the senior class picture because Kelli Davis was wearing boy's clothes.
and.........
Officials at the northeastern Florida school have said the picture was pulled from the yearbook because Davis did not follow the rules on dress.
but..........
School board attorney Bruce Bickner said there is no written dress code for senior pictures,
Just damn!
LVM
Jesus on a skateboard! Did he write "Sue me." in black permanent marker on the principal's forehead, too?
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