A civil rights organization filed a lawsuit on Tuesday after a Mississippi school district refused to change its policies that allegedly resulted in a lesbian student being bullied for months.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said on Tuesday that it had met with Mississippi’s Moss Point School District in March to ask officials to change policies because Destin Holmes had been bullied to the point of attempting suicide.“We are disappointed that the district fails to see the serious harm its deliberate inaction causes its students,” SPLC staff attorney Anjali Nair said on Tuesday. “District officials who are entrusted with the safety and education of all students not only ignored, dismissed and even blamed victims for the abusive behavior of faculty and other students, they also participated in discriminatory acts.”
there should be no question for the scotus that they were wrong to think things have changed in the south, maybe some people but the right wing racist bigoted mentality still reigns supreme and those 5 justices know it.
According to the lawsuit, the anti-LGBT comments started after Holmes enrolled at Magnolia Junior High in 2011. The complaint said that teachers would call her a “he/she” and she was forced to use the boys’ restroom. Students regularly referred to her as “dyke,” “lesbo” and “dyke-ass freak.”After meeting with Holmes’ father in March 2012, Assistant Principal LaJuna Payton brought the student in for a talk and called her a “pathetic fool,” and said, “I don’t want a dyke in this school.”
this is designed to punish and humiliate a kid the south doesn't need to rise it needs to go the way of the dinosaurs extinct, those who have a LGBT kid in their house does it matter to them what that does to them?
they are the neo bullies in school who should be prosecuted like others bigots of their kind. they are a half step away from causing suicides caused by their insensitive bulling they are their to teach and protect not to be the attacker.
