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Murdered Gay Boy’s Family Blames School for Letting Him Wear Makeup
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| Friday, August 15, 2008
| Associated Press
Posted on 08/15/2008 9:04:56 AM PDT by metmom
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To: N3WBI3
the kids was a ward of the state living in a facility to help abused people recover.
Being an out-there homosexual is enough to qualify for the facility esp if you have a powerful lesbian principal involved/
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:21:20 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
('08 VOTING, NOT for the GOP, but INSTEAD, for the SUPREME COURT that will be BEST for my FAMILY!!)
To: N3WBI3
A ward of the state for a reason. I suspect that it had to do with the parenting.
Why they should be upset that the school didn’t enforce the dress code when they obviously couldn’t enforce their parental authority before it got to the point of the kid ending up in state care, is beyond me.
Besides, what’s a kid in that kind of mental condition that he’s under special care away from home, doing being allowed to go to school unsupervised anyway?
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:22:25 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
15-year-old Larry King of Oxnard
This is going to be considered frivolous, it wasn't the makeup and clothing, it was his name that got him shot.
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:22:28 AM PDT
by
claymax
("Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." Alexander the Great)
To: Lurker
She's been promoted to principal of an elementary school, actually. http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/aug/15/county-schools-face-king-claims/
"Assistant Principal Joy Epstein, the only person named in the complaint, is accused of encouraging the boy to wear "women's clothing, shoes and makeup." She created an environment of "perceived safety" for King when "in fact she could not and did not protect Larry from the threats and ultimate death," the claim says.
Epstein, who has been promoted to the principalship of Sunkist School, did not return a call seeking comment. But Dannenberg said the claims against her are absolutely false."
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:24:18 AM PDT
by
hoppity
To: Devilinbaggypants
To: dhs12345
To: lady lawyer
Then it’s a textbook case of a bully getting more than he bargained for. Wonder why the media isn’t reporting it?/s
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:27:01 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: outofsalt
Bears repeating: “If the school had told them you can’t cross dress they would have sued for discrimination. Jackals!”
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:27:05 AM PDT
by
piytar
To: lady lawyer
Whaddya know. It made itself into a link.
To: metmom
...if the school hadn’t let this kid wear makeup, the headline would read “Family sues school for denying student rights”....
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:27:54 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
To: metmom
Did the parents prohibit these things at home or did they buy them for him?
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:33:52 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Hi there.)
To: metmom
"King was a ward of the court and living at a shelter for abused, neglected and emotionally troubled children at the time of the shooting."
seems the parents didn't care what this kid did. i'd like to smack them in the mouth.
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:34:22 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(contributing nothing of value to threads since 2001...)
To: lady lawyer
"...he was stalking the boy who eventually shot him, hitting on him and making comments suggesting that the other boy was gay, and threatening to tell the school that they two of them were having sex."
All of that is harassment. It is also defamation of character, slander, and blackmail.
It was a provoked attack.
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:36:34 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Hi there.)
To: metmom
which teacher was sexually recruiting the child?
did this school have a sex club in the form of GSA? (’gay’ straight alliance club)
there is no “homosexual” child unless that child has been recruited by the monsters inside the teaching profession.
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:38:11 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: hoppity
What support did the school give the student who was been sexually harassed?
What measures were they taking against his same sex stalker?
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:38:27 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Hi there.)
To: lady lawyer
A reasonable defense for the boy. Wonder how much the school encouraged or looked the other way while the boy was being harassed?
Looking the other way when someone was being bullied used to be common not long ago (before Columbine). Imagine it still happens.
Still not justification for murder, though.
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:39:24 AM PDT
by
dhs12345
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:42:26 AM PDT
by
SoftballMominVA
(I'm trying to think of a new screen name - any suggestions?)
To: metmom
I’m thinking that the enforcement of the dress code was the least of King’s problems. His main problem was that his birth parents did not parent, but gave that responsibility over to the schools.
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:44:18 AM PDT
by
SoftballMominVA
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To: metmom
The family of a gay teenager who was fatally shot in class blames the school district for allowing their son to wear makeup and feminine clothing to school factors the family claims led to the death.
Have these people considered that it might be more appropriate to blame the guy who shot him?
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:46:57 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
(George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a suggestion)
To: metmom
Yet the same family would likely have brought suit with the help of the ACLU had the school ENFORCED the code... After all, would not letting him wear make-up have been a suppression of his right to “express himself”?
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posted on
08/15/2008 9:49:28 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Vote your conscience, or don't complain about RINOs!)
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