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Gay teen murder illustrates schools' challenge
Associated Press ^ | 11/24/11 | GREG RISLING

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; homosexualagenda; larryking; publicschools
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The whole article takes pains to explain that this kid was killed precisely because his public school encouraged him to act out in ways repulsive to the other students. Then it closes with the Dem-proposed law requiring all public schools to do exactly the same thing.
1 posted on 11/24/2011 10:31:49 AM PST by madprof98
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One teacher encouraged King to explore his sexuality and gave him a dress.

The blind leading the blind.

2 posted on 11/24/2011 10:33:09 AM PST by PGR88
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Provocation: it benefits politician when sexual narcissists give themselves an A+ despite poor performance.


3 posted on 11/24/2011 10:34:05 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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a gay student's civil rights

How are homosexuals' "civil rights" any different than anyone else's civil rights? Don't we all have civil rights?

4 posted on 11/24/2011 10:34:30 AM PST by hsalaw
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McInerney, then 14, shot King in the head before stunned classmates

Brandon spoke in class today.

5 posted on 11/24/2011 10:34:58 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
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McInerney had reached an emotional breaking point after King made repeated, unwanted sexual advances toward him and other boys

Just wondering how it would be handled if this was a girl being subjected to repeated sexual advances.

7 posted on 11/24/2011 10:38:20 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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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?


8 posted on 11/24/2011 10:40:08 AM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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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??


9 posted on 11/24/2011 10:40:59 AM PST by Joe Boucher (FUBO ya quota boy ( Real conservative or go fish, Sooo, that leaves you out Mitt))
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On the Killing of Larry King
10 posted on 11/24/2011 10:41:08 AM PST by SpaceBar
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“... 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.


11 posted on 11/24/2011 10:41:37 AM PST by momtothree
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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?


12 posted on 11/24/2011 10:42:10 AM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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“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.


13 posted on 11/24/2011 10:43:59 AM PST by haroldeveryman
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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.

People kill each other for countless reasons. Do we know this specifically was the only motive? I'll bet not.

14 posted on 11/24/2011 10:45:12 AM PST by skeeter
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“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.


15 posted on 11/24/2011 10:46:52 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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The blind leading the blind.

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.

16 posted on 11/24/2011 10:47:05 AM PST by tacticalogic
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One teacher said she gave King her daughter's homecoming dress. Another said he did nothing when King paraded around in makeup and high heels in front of McInerney the day before the shooting because he assumed a school administrator who had watched what was going on would take care of the situation.

The school administrator engineered her own private Matthew Shepard for the purpose of advancing her own private homosexual agenda.

She should be in jail.

17 posted on 11/24/2011 10:47:20 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
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“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.


18 posted on 11/24/2011 10:47:48 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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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.

But if he'd wanted to wear an American flag t-shirt on Cinco de Mayo, they'd be all over him.

19 posted on 11/24/2011 10:48:59 AM PST by denydenydeny (The moment you step into a world of facts, you step into a world of limits. --Chesterton)
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“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.


20 posted on 11/24/2011 10:49:19 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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