To quote a famous comedian who recently moved to Chicago, what the crap?
Really? Telling gay students they can’t go to the restroom?
Get a load of this:
Fifteen students protested outside a Frankfort, Ky., high school on Friday after an official allegedly sent a notification to teachers advising them to bar gay students from leaving class to use the restroom.
The reported e-mail was sent by Franklin County High School assistant principal Karen Buzard after two female students were reportedly seen kissing in a bathroom…
And from the State Journal:
Wayne Dominick, communications coordinator for Franklin County Schools, was at the school at the time of the protest and said he had not seen the e-mail.
Dominick said an open records request would have to be submitted in order for The State Journal to review e-mails sent by Buzard.
Dominick said Superintendent Harrie Buecker met Friday with some of the students involved in the protest and that steps are being taken to address the students’ concerns.
Buzard was unavailable for comment.
Our head is absolutely spinning.
If you feel so inclined, here’s Karen Buzard’s email address: Karen.Buzard@franklin.kyschools.us
9 responses so far ↓
1 Paul Harvey // May 5, 2009 at 12:35 pm
The rest of the story…
there were multiple names on the list without regard to what their orientation may be…it was simply a list of students who had a pattern of going to bathroom at same time to spend time out of class which is wrong regardless of orientation, which again was not targeted. This is example of the Frankfort paper taking student’s reactions when they were actually overreactions without full knowledge of the facts.
2 Paul Harvey // May 5, 2009 at 12:36 pm
in other words…there were not just gay students on the list…
3 jake // May 5, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Hrm… having just seen the email, it’s clear that Buzard was targeting gay students. List of names or not.
Otherwise this wouldn’t be an issue.
4 Conservative // May 5, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I’m repulsed by this.
The thought of kissing in the bathroom? Nassss-ty. That’s where people pee and poop and sneeze and snot and wipe their butts and change their female sanitary hygiene products. Blech. Double blech.
Plus everybody knows you can get AIDS and STDs from toilet seats. (j/k, of course)
The entrepreneur in me wants to market some sort of Depends for young lesbians. There may be a burgeoning market in Franklin County.
5 Conservative // May 5, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Let me be the first to say …. will buzzards be circling Buzard over this?
(rimshot…)
6 TinctureOfBadass // May 5, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I just posted this on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8i2c7/fifteen_students_protested_outside_a_frankfort_ky/
I’d appreciate it if folks would upvote this to give this story some more attention.
7 Ray Re // May 5, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Jake, it’s one thing to not share the email for our discernment, but to not show pictures of the lesbians? I’m so disappointed. Are they that ugly? Why not let the readers decide? BTW My sister was a lesbian once, but when the Girls Gone Wild video crew left she went back to her boyfriend
8 jake // May 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Ray Re – The individuals who showed the email to me wouldn’t let me scan it. If I could get it, I’d share it for sure.
Conservative – I’d help front money for the depends project. Let’s talk. HA.
9 Josephine // May 5, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Well, I ask my friends to come powder their noses with me in the bathroom, but apparently now my plan to seduce them has been foiled. Without being able to go the bathroom with them, how will I lure and seduce them into the wildly sinful world of homosexuality?
PS – I bet Buzard and Collette have gone to the bathroom together a time or two.
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