Teacher testifies in gay student murder trial

Atlanta Journa-Constitution ^ | August 4, 2011 | AP

[madprof98]

LOS ANGELES — The English teacher of a gay student who was shot by a classmate at a junior high school testified Wednesday that she told him to stop wearing eyeliner and mascara, but that he refused and the classroom disruption escalated.

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She said King told her the school's assistant vice-principal, Joy Epstein, said he could. She said she went and spoke to Epstein, and was told King had constitutional rights to do so. Later, an email message was issued telling teachers that King's attire was allowed and that they should try to teach students tolerance.

Ekman said she incorporated the message of tolerance into her lessons, but that the problem continued. She said boys complained to her that King was chasing them into the bathroom.

"I explained to him that what he was doing was inappropriate and he laughed and said that he could go into the boys' bathroom and he liked to see them squirm," she said.

Ekman said she went to Epstein to complain about King's behavior again, but the administrator told her there was nothing that could be done. Four days later, King was shot in the head in the computer classroom at E.O Green School in Oxnard.

[pandoraou812]

I hope so. She does grumble about feeding the chickens now that we bought a small farm to keep the horses with us.

[Antoninus]

Under cross-examination, Goldstein said she never personally saw any of the problems King was allegedly causing. Goldstein said she didn’t know of specific complaints but heard other teachers talking about it in the lunchroom.

Of course not. Why would anyone tell her? She was obviously enabling this poor soul's mental illness and is in a position of power. No one wanted to get in trouble.

The lunatics truly are running the asylum.

[DBeers]

Unintended consequences.

IF they continue promoting disorder and depravity as normal THEN there will be unintended consequences. Disorder breeds disorder. There is a reason society has historically placed no value in or promoted homosexual sex, THIS is one of the reasons.

[Morpheus2009]

What happened to just going by a regular dress code. Most people don’t care about if some guy’s homosexual so long as he dresses like a man, and doesn’t get all in your face with innuendos. That being said I probably would have at least been a little disciplinary about the kid who tried looking feminine.

As for the kids who killed him, that’s also wretched, and hopefully it is punished. But the schoolboard is a simple mess too, and there’s no denying it. It used to be that you got in trouble for acting all like a woman and causing trouble for the other boys, especially when others can see it. That’s totally rediculous, school is for learning. If some person wants to get all transvestite, do it at home.