... 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.

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And now the school superintendent says it didn't happen

[pheon.livejournal.com]

The school superintendent says that the punishment never happened. “An apology is not due,” Superintendent James Easton said Tuesday. “The child was not singled out because his parent is gay.” He said that the student's "...discipline was unrelated to any judgment by school officials regarding sexual orientation or practices, or the student's discussion of that particular topic." and he "...concluded that the discipline was related to ordinary student disturbances." However, he was unable to provide any documents supporting that latter staements. And the ACLU has scanned images of the documents sent home here and here

Unless those documents are forgeries, I suspect the superintendent is digging an even deeper hole for the district. [Thanks to The Volokh Conspiracy for the links.]

Re: And now the school superintendent says it didn't happen

[kyrielle]

Bleh. *noddles* I think they're digging a pretty good hole there, yep....