... Um. ExCUSE me?

[kyrielle]

A boy was punished for using the word "gay" and explaining that it meant "when a girl likes another girl" to one of his classmates...while discussing the fact that he has two mothers instead of a mother and a father. He was told it was a bad word, sent to a "behavioral clinic", and made to write repeatedly that he would not use the word in school again.

ACLU article.

Actually, they pretty much say it all. That's ridiculous. And wrong.

Comments

[juliann.livejournal.com]

Although what is scarier is that this school system apparently doesn't teach kids how to spell. At age 7 (usually second grade) he can't spell "said" and "words" :(

[kyrielle]

True. I don't think that's scarier, though: I don't know the kid's nature, and whether he is ahead or behind his classmates, whether he pays attention, etc. I don't know if he's the exception to that or not.

His spelling's definitely bad. But it may or may not be indicative of the school district. The other action, that it happened even once....