Principal’s outing of gay student roils Fla. town

[Roon]

PONCE DE LEON, Fla. - When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.

He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de Leon High School, according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether they were gay or associated with gay students.

The American Civil Liberties Union successfully sued the district on behalf of a girl who protested against Principal David Davis, and a federal judge reprimanded Davis for conducting a "witch hunt" against gays. Davis was demoted, and school employees must now go through sensitivity training.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26316235/

[Wapsie B]

1. On a side note, wasn't Davis seen in a Minneapolis airport restroom recently?

I'm only half facetious about this. Seems like he's got some issues still in the closet himself.

[phantom power]

2. Do they import these homophobic freaks from the 19th century?

[dbonds]

3. Well, it ended well, kind of.

Doesn't mean any of it should have happened in the first place.

[noamnety]

5. I don't know about that.

They're allowing him to continue teaching. I don't think he has any business teaching kids - he's the one who should be kept away from children, imho.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Kudos to her friends who wore the shirts and buttons

At the time they did so, there was no assurance that the principal would be reprimanded.