Posted on 11/24/2011 10:31:47 AM PST by madprof98
LOS ANGELES (AP) — There were many missed opportunities to prevent the murder of a 15-year-old gay student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard.
Teachers and students saw a simmering feud between Brandon McInerney and Larry King but said they were either ignored by administrators or did little or nothing to intervene. King's mother said she pleaded with school officials to help tone down her son's increasingly flamboyant behavior. One teacher encouraged King to explore his sexuality and gave him a dress.
Nearly four years after McInerney, then 14, shot King in the head before stunned classmates, plenty of questions remain about what went wrong and what can be learned to prevent future tragedies.
King's death illustrates the difficulty schools have balancing a gay student's civil rights with teaching tolerance to those who feel threatened by or uncomfortable about someone who's different. It also highlighted the importance of setting clear policies to eliminate confusion among educators.
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King's mother, Dawn King, said she met with school officials four days before the February 2008 shooting hoping they would help tone down her son's behavior. She said she was told King had a civil right to explore his sexual identity.
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A bill introduced by Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., is pending before the House Education and Workforce Committee that would prohibit discrimination in public schools against lesbian and gay students.
If passed, violating the Student Non-Discrimination Act could lead to districts losing federal funding. Polis said he had King and other teens like him in mind when he wrote the bill.
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The blind leading the blind.
Provocation: it benefits politician when sexual narcissists give themselves an A+ despite poor performance.
How are homosexuals' "civil rights" any different than anyone else's civil rights? Don't we all have civil rights?
Brandon spoke in class today.
Just wondering how it would be handled if this was a girl being subjected to repeated sexual advances.
Maybe its me but...why is a 15 year old homosexual male wearing a dress and high heels allowed to be in 8th grade class to begin with?
Sooo,
It’s ok for a homosexual to be pushy in coming on to someone yet were I a normal hetrosexual to come on to aggressively towards a female it is wrong??
“... if this was a girl being repeated sexual advances”.
I have wondered that myself, ElkGroveDan. I’m not condoning murder but you know that the straight boy was ridiculed over these advances. After one such proposition (and no being the answer), any more sexual attention is bullying and harassing IMHO. The school tried to play the PC game and it pushed the envelope to homicide.
If a 15 year old white boy was making unwanted sexual advances on a 14 year old black girl and she shot him...would the lefts reaction in this case (and the girl’s sentence) be the same I wonder?
“King’s mother said she pleaded with school officials to help tone down her son’s increasingly flamboyant behavior. One teacher encouraged King to explore his sexuality and gave him a dress.”
This could be the Department of Education’s mission statement.
People kill each other for countless reasons. Do we know this specifically was the only motive? I'll bet not.
“One teacher encouraged King to explore his sexuality and gave him a dress.
Nearly four years after McInerney, then 14, shot King in the head before stunned classmates, plenty of questions remain about what went wrong and what can be learned to prevent future tragedies.”
Don’t give freaks like this more cowbell to explore the space with by sexually harassing and bothering other students. Keep your deviancy to yourself because no one else is interested in it.
The principal should be held accountable for his actions.
It sounds like they turned this kid into their own little social experiment to see how far they could push the envelope, and the kid paid with his life for them to find out.
The school administrator engineered her own private Matthew Shepard for the purpose of advancing her own private homosexual agenda.
She should be in jail.
“One teacher encouraged King to explore his sexuality and gave him a dress.
The blind leading the blind. “
Perhaps one could accurately substitute for “The blind leading the blind” - “The Queer trolling for fresh meat.”.
Just wonderin’.
We are, after all, discussing a public school dealing with homosexuality in the Age of Obama.
But if he'd wanted to wear an American flag t-shirt on Cinco de Mayo, they'd be all over him.
“King’s death illustrates the difficulty schools have balancing a gay student’s civil rights with teaching tolerance to those who feel threatened by or uncomfortable about someone who’s different.”
It is not a civil right to sexually harass others whether homosexual or heterosexual. Now if you sent the boy to gay bar the homosexuals there wouldn’t mind.
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