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I'm just pointing the obvious... Frankly, the principal is not morally pure since he's willing to humiliate two of his students for no reason. He should work on his own sins before he judges others.

Two other insights:

- If the varsity QB decided to shop sexy photos of his girlfriend around the school, would he be punished in the same way... If this school is anything like my morally upright Catholic high school, I very much doubt it.

- I'm very sensitive to teasing/ humiliation because I've had so much experience with it. One of my best guy friends was openly gay, and he endured four years of horrible taunting from the other good Catholic children at my school. Moreover, another acquaintance attempted suicide after some popular girls thought it would be funny to spread untrue rumors about her sexual orientation. The school didn't help out in either of these situations, and frankly I think that they have blood on their hands in the latter incident since the principal basically ignored my friend after our favorite teacher encouraged her to talk to him about the situation.

"Frankly, the principal is not morally pure since he's willing to humiliate two of his students for no reason. He should work on his own sins before he judges others."

Ahem. I was talking about you. What gives you the right to judge, if only the pure may judge? Why don't you work on your own sins, before you judge him?

And... humiliate two students? THEY are the ones who circulated the photos, not him. THEY are the ones who went to the press. THEY are the ones who are bringing the lawsuit. There's nothing in this article that says he humiliated them to the public in any way.

And you think the QB who circulated sexy photos of his girlfriend wouldn't be treated the same? We're both speculating, but I doubt his behavior would be tolerated. Nor should it be.

The peer cruelty you described which your friends endured is appalling and cannot in any way be defended. My own opinion is that the peer culture out there is deeply corrupt --- students being incredibly cutting and wounding to each other ----which is one reason why we're a homeschooling family.

Back when I was a political lesbian, years ago, it was the kindness of Christians that saved my troubled soul.