Zappykins said:
I think you missed the point of that HS's yearbook. Many students write different stories about things they learned and experiences they went through growing up and going to that school. Some may write about working at a hospital, learning to ride and show horses, this kid wrote about his coming out expereince. Why should his story be single out and rejected just because he is gay? It shouldn't, and as the article stated, the only rejected others because they didn't want to look bad for just rejecting the 'gay kid.' Many other stories are stll included. It's showing that bigotry is still alive and well in parts of the USA. I get what you are saying and think people shouldn't have to come out. If they are asked if they are with someone it shouldn't matter if they are dating someone named Kelly if it is a guy or a girl. But unfortunately, parts of the country and the world aren't that evolved yet. As someone with your experiences, I'm suprized you see that. |
Here's the thing. I support gay rights... but at the same time I can't help but feel your swallowing this story a bit too hard without doing any further research.
That part of the article just seemed like an assumption on the part of the Yearbook comitttees.
We don't even know what those other stories are, so we can't really judge.
Additionally, I don't see where many other stories were included... to me it just looks like they decided to get rid of ALL the stories this year... and maybe just in general.
Based on the actual wording of the superintendent it almost sounds like they just decided to scrap the stories permanently this year and fucked up the year to do it.
Lots of schools have decided to get rid of such things so as to save money and to equalize yearbooks, so that when people look at the book they don't think the school was centered around a few people, the ones who got the stories becuase they had the right connections.
In another article Bruner complains that this isn't the first time the school district has changed something in the year book.... (but doesn't elaborate on what).
I wouldn't be shocked if this was a case of a disgruntled employee using a gay students story as a cudgel to hit back at the school district and make the kid feel like shit when it may not of had anything to do with him.
That's the problem with interent reporting though. It gets all over the place, everyone reads it how they want, and reports the facts back as they read them... except they read them differently, and the chain goes on until the article isn't remotely the same as it was.
I'm not ready to throw them under the bus yet unless I can read a firsthand account of what's censored, what's in the book and the school districts full position.
