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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Male to male sexual harassment is “exploring your sexual identity.” Male to female is time to send the evil male to jail and get a nice settlement for the victim. Sexual harassment is wrong and shoul be delt with in a rational manner. Zero tolerance doesn’t seem to work either. Too bad we don’t have morals anymore.
Spot on ! Exactly!
If this had been a girl who had been harassed by a male student how would it have been handled?
Perhaps the best place to start is the LA Board of Education. Get thousands of irate citizens, a lot of rope, and there's plenty of traffic signals and trees to go around. After cleaning house there, move on to the school administration and the teacher’s union thugs.
Gay "gunwalking". The adminstration and staff encouraged the kid to be sexually agressive, creating the situtation that would allow for a sympathic response to the legislation.
Uniforms.
It’s tough to work up sympathy for a parent who “pleaded with school officials” rather than simply get her son the hell out of there. The government schools are no place for the children of loving parents. ...By the way, I saw no mention of a father in this story.
One teacher encouraged King to explore his sexuality and gave him a dress.
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Not in a ‘legal’ sense, BUT,
if the kid would have said he felt like committing suicide, would the same teacher give him a pistol?
OR
If the kid said he was being bullied would the teacher give him a shotgun?
In essence, one solution fits all for teacher.
Yes! It's you!!
A revolution has taken place around you and you haven't even noticed; the world has moved on, the discussion has reached a different stage.
The only productive approach to this issue is to figure out how to prevent a repeat of the catastrophe when this nightmare is at long last over.
Your ideas are good, but I think sometimes you just leave a toilet like Los Angeles alone. Just let the animals eat each other up and crap each other out until it’s time to press the handle and yell, “Fire in the hole!”.
Where was this boy's father? Maybe that is the fundamental reason there was a problem with sexuality in the first place.
What about the murderer? Where we the men in **his** family? Were there any? Perhaps a very private and firm talk with the flamingly flamboyant King by the men of the murderer's family would have put an end to it.
Both families were relying on the socialist K-12 schools to raise their kids. There was an extreme failure on both sides of the men in these families to intervene.
What did Rome do after Caligula?
Where are the men in this boy's family. Why would they let him do it?
Here's a modest proposal:
Try balancing the civil rights of those that feel threatened by gay sexual harassment with teaching prudence to gays.
Just curious...did his mom ever thought of getting him help?
It didn’t end after Caligula. By some measures Nero was just as bad.
If this had been a boy chasing a girl, the school would have put uts foot down.
It wasn’t the schools’ challenge....it was their incompotence.
Why is a 15 year old in 8th grade..if you start school at 5, by the time you arein.8th you should be 13. I was 12 in 8th.
Why is a 15 year old in 8th grade..if you start school at 5, by the time you arein.8th you should be 13. I was 12 in 8th.
King was adopted at age two by Gregory and Dawn King. His biological father had abandoned his wife, and his mother was a drug addict who failed to care for her son properly. King was prescribed medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and according to Gregory King, Larry had been diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, a condition in which a child fails to develop relationships with his or her caregivers. He was also forced to repeat the first grade of schooling. By the third grade, King began to be bullied by his fellow students due to his effeminacy and openness about being gay, having come out at ten years old.
At the age of twelve, King was placed on probation for theft and vandalism. In November 2007, he was removed from his adoptive home and placed in a group home and treatment center named Casa Pacifica after he alleged that his adoptive father was physically abusing him, a charge Gregory King denied.
He was in foster care when he was killed.
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