Comments on: Anoka-Hennepin School District sued. Finally!

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:52:22 +0000

Over here, there’s a crime of “reckless endangerment”. I suspect something similar exists over there. Sounds to me like these people are guilty of it.

TRiG.

By: Reed Boyer

Reed Boyer — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:57:00 +0000

A hugely frustrating factor in all of this is that Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both report FOUR suicides from students who were either LGBT or “bullied as if LGBT,” but only Justin Aaberg’s name seems to have been out there until this past week when Samantha Jean Johnson’s case was referenced by CNN as part of its reporting on this lawsuit.

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:01:56 +0000

Here is what I don’t understand. Schools are OBLIGATED to teach the FACTS on human history, biology,sociology and reserve the right to encourage teaching young people how to treat each other properly and navigate all inevitable encounters they might have in their lives.

Especially in schools where the student body and campus is small and there is less shelter from invasion and abuse.

Considering how eagerly the anti gay invoke 1st amendment rights and assert they will be punished BY whatever they express: it’s considerable hypocrisy to hinder or silence a SCHOOL’S ability to function fully and optimize a child’s education and social adjustment.

We can point to irrefutable evidence that such restrictions are harmful and puts young people at risk.

There is NO evidence that teaching children the realities, especially of controversial issues, does them any harm. And there is evidence they are helped by being fully informed by truthful information.
Since when does prejudice, fear, hysteria and stereotypes against a group EVER been a good thing in an educational setting?

A school has FAR more 1st amendment rights here, I would think. As does any child has the right to an education that betters their lives.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:23:28 +0000

I am struck by their callous response to the suicides of nine students. Rather than being eager to consider all the reason’s why this might have happened their first priority is to deny bullying had anything to do with it despite it being so pervasive in schools.

Bigots like to claim they’re not haters, but what else other than hate can explain their willingness to put a higher priority on denying gays help than on lives themselves?

By: BlackDog

BlackDog — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:44:32 +0000

I have a lot of family in MN (My grandpa’s relatives, Mostly in the northern part of the state) and while a lot of them are conservative most of them are pretty easygoing and none of them act like THAT.

What the hell is the Anoka-Hennepin school district’s malfunction? Are they typical of the people there? For her part Michelle Bachmann is completely the opposite of most people I know from MN (although to be fair none of those people are Evangelicals or even particularly religious) Is the crazy in the state just that concentrated in the Minneapolis suburbs??

By: MEP

MEP — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:46:19 +0000

As a Minnesotan, we’ve been watching this one brew for quite some time and I’m thrilled to see the SPLC come forward. I hope the outcome is positive.

It is worth noting, I believe, that this school district is smack dab in the middle of Michele Bachmann’s district.

Probably not so surprising when you think about it.