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Female Students Say They Fear Lesbians' Harassment - School Holds Meeting On Alleged Threats
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Posted on 02/18/2004 7:02:07 PM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
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To: Sub-Driver
Don't be cruel. "Chicken Hawks" need to play, too.
I cannot hide my disgust for dykes. Also, most of them are into hard drugs by the time they are into their mid-twenties. And they all wear their stupid lesbian levi uniforms and have short hair cuts. Burn-out's, most of them by the time they into their 30's.
Very sad, really.
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:06:12 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: Sub-Driver
Reckon what GLSEN has to say, seeing as how one of their tactics in defining Deviancy down is crying that schools aren't safe for the homosexuals.
Maybe they'll demand a "Day of Silence" for the straights in this instance?
Yeah, right....
42
posted on
02/18/2004 8:08:25 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Gut and raze the NEA! ©)
To: Sub-Driver
Spare the rod, get lesbian bullies harassing girls.
There are SO many kids nowadays that needed to be beaten while growing up.
43
posted on
02/18/2004 8:11:59 PM PST
by
Sofa King
(MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval http://www.angelfire.com/art2/sofaking/index.html)
To: Sub-Driver; TomServo
To: jocon307
"just that it is not an overt choice on their part"
BS, they all made a choice at one time.
45
posted on
02/18/2004 8:33:13 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
To: Sub-Driver
Isn't Philadelphia the home of "brotherly" love?
I'm so confused. :{
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posted on
02/18/2004 8:37:23 PM PST
by
Free Trapper
(One with courage is often a majority.)
To: Sub-Driver
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...opps, sorry, only includes harassment of gays, not harassment by gays......
To: Sub-Driver
I'm sure they must be imagining/exaggerating this. < /sarcasm >
To: Sub-Driver
This situation may produce some brand-new conservatives in an unexpected place.
It darn sure won't produce any more liberals.
(steely)
To: Antoninus
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.Normally yes --- but there is some kind of weird fad going on now --- first it was bisexuality a couple years ago but it's a fad to be gay. My daughter is only 14 and said there are lots of lesbians in her 9th grade class --- she says she thinks they just pretend because they think it's cool but she says they're very annoying because they bother the regular girls.
50
posted on
02/18/2004 8:55:07 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: Sub-Driver
Separation of School and State BUMP!
51
posted on
02/18/2004 9:03:39 PM PST
by
TheDon
(John Kerry, self proclaimed war criminal, Democratic Presidential nominee)
To: Antoninus
When I was 11 there were rumors in my school about a friend of mine. "Don't spend the night at Susan's house," girls said. I was too innocent to know what they were talking about. One weekend my parents let Susan and me have a sleepover at my house. I found out. This girl had never had any traumatic experiences and came from a loving family background, but she was all over me. Her seduction technique was pretty sophisticated, too. She was 12.
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posted on
02/18/2004 10:21:20 PM PST
by
Capriole
(Foi vainquera)
To: Yeti
My best friend went to a different high school than I did, but we were friends back then. In her school, there was this girl, this hanger-on, who was sort of on the margins of my friend's particular "crowd". This girl was a lesbian--a real one, not just some little airhead pretending to be one b/c some famous person was one. This girl took delight in embarrassing the female members of the "crowd" by coming up to them and pretending to accidentally flail her arm and hit them in the breasts. This trick of hers was always accompanied by a loud, "HI, SO-AND-SO!!" So that way all the other kids would see what happened. Whatever girl she did this to would want to sink into the ground for embarrassment.
My friend managed to avoid her in the halls, but there was one other girl who was already having problems anyway (parents going through nasty divorce, etc.) and that girl would literally break out in hives sometimes when she'd hear the lesbian girl coming up through the crowd.
I knew the llesbian girl, too, as she had used to live in my neighborhood. My friend and I felt sorry for her.
These girls in this article sound like real scum!
To: Sub-Driver
So this cat's out of the bag--the lesbians I remember the clearest were PE teachers--only I was too dumb/young to know what it was that gave me the creeps when I was around them...
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posted on
02/19/2004 5:38:09 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Fee
Observations from freepers? Maybe there are some uncomfortable ones to be made--such as how straight men often regard lesbians as a turn-on , the same straight guys who get the icky-poo shudders around homosexual men...
Lesbians get more approval from straight men than homosexual men do. Guys like to see them go at it--part of porn and fetishism.
Oh, I grant that straight women tend to become attached to some "sweet" guys through some mutual interest (generally Style), but homosexual men are not any kind of a "turn-on" for straight women.
55
posted on
02/19/2004 5:43:33 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Sub-Driver
My niece recently graduated from a school for the gifted and talented which is an hour and a half away from home. The school has dorms and is much like a college. She said that the current trend is to be "gay." Girls are experimenting with it and calling themselves "gay" because that's the newest cool thing.
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posted on
02/19/2004 6:00:44 AM PST
by
Skooz
(My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
To: Sub-Driver
Some studies (see item 20,
here as an example) indicate Intra-lesbian domestic violence is the highest per capita, moreso that gay male couples or heterosexuals.
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posted on
02/19/2004 6:47:33 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Think of all the accidents you never hear about because they don't happen.)
To: Sub-Driver
Jesus said a man can't serve more than one master.
I keep hoping that the democrats grand scheme of forging all these little "victim" groups together into a real constituency will falter on that rock, since the interests of most of the little groups conflict. This is another obvious example.
To: Amelia; summer; Diana; Semper911
Teacher ping. I've never done a ping list before - just starting this one. Please let me know if you'd like to be on (or off) the list.
I'll try not to ping you to too many threads :)
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posted on
02/19/2004 7:25:31 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Think of all the accidents you never hear about because they don't happen.)
To: Sub-Driver
As if we needed further evidence of the depths of depravity this country has sunk to.
And we claim to have a moral high ground?
It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
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posted on
02/19/2004 7:32:23 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
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