Here’s a straight kid in Georgia who gets it, and on the other side, here are the public school faculty who are apparently letting their bigotry interfere with their ability to be decent educators:
Two faculty advisers to the student council at Alpharetta High School fired that body’s president last month after he introduced a resolution to make the Prom Queen & King competition more inclusive to gay students by renaming it the Prom Court, a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges.
Reuben Lack, the former student body president at Alpharetta High School, presented the proposal at the Jan. 12 student council meeting. As the students began a “vibrant discussion” of the resolution, faculty adviser Michelle Werre intervened, Lack’s lawyer, James Radford, told Fenuxe Wednesday evening.
“Before there could be a formal vote, the adviser shut the discussion down,” Radford said.
At the next student council meeting two weeks later, Lack, who is not gay, re-introduced the measure “out of defiance,” but was again thwarted by the faculty adviser, Radford said.
“A week after that, he is called into a meeting with the two faculty advisers for student council, and they inform him, ‘We’re sorry, but you are no longer president of the student council,” Radford said. “It was that abrupt.”
He simply tried to make sure that a portion of the student body didn’t feel excluded from a defining event for many high school students, and the kid, who was elected by his peers, was kicked off the student council. Nice “adults” you’ve got there, Alpharetta High School. For readers not familiar with Alpharetta, it should be pointed out that Alpharetta is a tony suburb of Atlanta and not some little town out in the country that gays try to escape from.
[h/t Tengrain]
So much for the validity and authority of students voting to elect a leader.
All the kids who support lgbt equality should come to the prom dressed as the opposite gender.
The students are more enlightened than the supposed advisors who will pass from the scene and either be remembered with contempt or forgotten. Reuben can look forward to a promising life; the advisors can look forward to going home at night where their fat and psychopathic spouses will thrash them within inches of their lives.
“If you don’t have a Prom King and Queen, you can’t have a Prom Court. How can you have a Prom Court if you don’t have a Prom King and Queen?”
Evan, here’s a Reddit post from an Alpharetta High School student (with photo proof) explaining the situation in more detail. I really think you should read it before passing judgment on the Alpharetta faculty.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/r8c8r/alpharetta_ga_high_school_student_body_president/c43v16k
It’s incredibly depressing, but it appears that this kid hijacked public sympathy for gay rights in order to screw his school after they removed him from his position for valid reasons. He used the natural indignation you feel when you hear about this case to drag his school’s name through the mud for little more than petty vindictiveness.
Bart, I don’t know, it seems a little less depressing to me that this story isn’t as cut and dried as it seemed. My first reaction was anger so I am very happy if it isn’t true. If this kid really did this as an act of vengeance he might find the anger he stirred up redirected at him.