Female Students Say They Fear Lesbians' Harassment - School Holds Meeting On Alleged Threats

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[Sub-Driver]

Female Students Say They Fear Lesbians' Harassment School Holds Meeting On Alleged Threats

POSTED: 6:49 pm EST February 18, 2004 UPDATED: 8:25 pm EST February 18, 2004

PHILADELPHIA -- Gang concerns brought parents and students together Wednesday at a west Philadelphia middle school. But the kind of gang may surprise you.

Girls at the Turner Middle School allege that lesbian students are harassing them with gay remarks. The straight students say lesbians are bullying, groping and harassing them in gym and in the girl's bathrooms.

Parents of the students say the harrassment must stop before it becomes violent.

"I told them, 'No.' And they kept bothering us. (They) kept coming to us asking us to become gay," said Felicia Anderson (pictured, left), a straight student.

Anderson, 14, said she doesn't like it and it makes her cry.

Wednesday morning, Felicia and her mother joined around 24 other parents and students to meet with school officials behind closed doors for two hours at Turner Middle School.

"(I am) very angry. Now my daughter is afraid to come to school," said Tonya Grandy, a parent of a student who said she was harrassed.

Other parents said they were also fed up with the sexual harassment from as many as a dozen 8th-graders at Turner.

"She called me last week screaming and hollering and crying because they had her in the gym cornered off, telling her what they were gonna make her do," said Renee Alexander.

"Don't nobody wanna be gay. Don't nobody wanna be harassed. Don't nobody wanna be scared to come to school," said Kendra Branch, a student.

State Rep. Ron Waters, who attended the meeting, said all students were reminded about the school's code of conduct. It includes policies against bullying and sexual harassment with consequences.

"(You don't have to) accept it as part of growing up. They're violating your right," Waters explained.

Perhaps the most productive moment came when one mother, Barbara Crawford, whose daughter has been accused of harassment asked for help.

"Accusations, fighting and all that. Maybe my daughter is causing trouble. Maybe not. I know it's a change and I need help. I'm going to do something about it if I have to walk her to school and pick her up -- or even transfer her to another school," Crawford said.

Crawford said she is pleased with how the school is handling this situation. Philadelphia schools have a zero tolerance policy regarding harassment and bullying. Officials at Turner Middle School declined comment on Wednesday's meeting.

[A. Pole]

send in the lawyers..........

So we need the lawyers after all.

[GeronL]

Party "A" taunts party "B" so that when party "B" retaliates, party "A" may lay claim to "victims of gay bashing".

they must teach this scam in the Vast Gay Conspiracy

[Sub-Driver]

is Ocean Grove the next town south of Asbury Park?

[jocon307]

"Any freepers have the same observations?"

I think that lesbianism is much more politicized than male homosexuality. I don't think too many men "go gay" in order to "make a statement" about the world, themselves or whatever. The same cannot be said for lesbians. I venture that while most men who are homosexual just are (and I don't mean to imply they are born that way, just that it is not an overt choice on their part) many, many women have been turned to lesbianism via radical feminism and a more active recruitment ethos among lesbians.

This is my impression, I certainly can't prove it. But hey, I grew up in NYC and my own brother was gay (he died, that's why I say was) so I'm pretty sophisticated and not just talking out of my elbow.

[hotpotato]

Lesbians in middle school? I don't think so.

They are acting out what is fashionable and what they see in their idols.... Brittney Spears and Maddona (et al). Being gay is the "in thing."

[GeronL]

I have seen small towns for sale on e-bay (the one in southern New Mexico was pretty nice), why can't a church own one?? You could!

[nmh]

Hey, has homo loving O'Reilly heard of this yet? Is he still believing that gay is okay?

[Yeti]

More nice lesbians.

[GeronL]

this is a forced recruitment drive in 7th grade.

aw grate! =o)

[COEXERJ145]

"Don't nobody wanna be gay. Don't nobody wanna be harassed. Don't nobody wanna be scared to come to school," said Kendra Branch, a student/

Jeez, learn some proper grammar kid.

[hotpotato]

I don't think too many men "go gay" in order to "make a statement" about the world, themselves or whatever.

Instead, they wear female clothing or, for full impact, undergo "sex reassignment surgery."

[TomServo]

they must teach this scam in the Vast Gay Conspiracy

I wouldn't know. Perhaps this scam is taught by Tawana Brawely.

[Antoninus]

"Lesbians in middle school? I don't think so."

Believe it. I've seen it.

I'm not saying I don't believe it. I'm saying that lesbians are made. At age 12, a girl doesn't just decide she's a lesbian without some kind of outside trauma. A girl claiming to be a "lesbian" at 12 usually has suffered some severe emotional trauma--rape, sexual abuse, statutory rape, etc.

Only a severely broken society produces 12-year-old lesbian bullies. Philadelphia is just such a society.

[Antoninus]

Lawyers are the problem. We need justice.

I agree with you 100%. But in a city as corrupt as Philadelphia, justice is an impossibility. The best you can do is cause someone serious financial pain.

[Jonathon Spectre]

"I told them, 'No.' And they kept bothering us. (They) kept coming to us asking us to become gay," said Felicia Anderson (pictured, left), a straight student.

Anderson, 14, said she doesn't like it and it makes her cry.

No words... should have sent... a poet...

[IronJack]

lesbians are bullying, groping and harassing them in gym and in the girl's bathrooms.

Well, women have finally managed to descend to the level of men. Ain't equality great?

See ya at the Lowest Common Denominator.

[Charles Henrickson]

(They) kept coming to us asking us to become gay,"

No wonder. It's Turn-her Middle School.

[Taiwan Bocks]

But what do you really think?

(Keep up the solid gold fabulous rants!)

[Taiwan Bocks]

Where was this article from, the Sodom Gazette?
The Gomorrah Daily?