Teachers On Leave For Allegedly Making Gay Taunts

HEY! I thought you were innocent until proven guilty? What's this another Duke Lacrosse case? Everyone is guilty when it's against gays,blacks,or other minorities. Let the investigation find out what happened before we screw over more innocent people! So far as this report says all it is is allegations,and yet they gave him $25,000!!!???

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Honestly...I feel for the homosexual community, I support gay rights, and I honestly understand where they are coming from, however, if you go through school without a teacher at taking a couple of jabs at you for whatever reason, you probably didn't have a well rounded education. I've had teachers make fun of those who fall asleep in class, show up late, fail tests, wear certain clothes, did poorly in sports the previous game, their hair styles, their essays, and many other attributes. Now most will say that these aren't the same issues as say religion, sexual orientation, or gender, but they easilly could be just based off of other circumstances. It is a job of a teacher to teach, but it is also the job of the teacher to keep the attention of the students. I myself was made fun of on one occasion for having an assignment typed from a typewriter, he called me backwards and a caveman. Granted it's not to the same magnitude, but I know how to take a joke. Alex Merritt needs to have his skin toughened, and we all need to stop being so "litigation happy". I might also like to add, there were some who said Merritt was lying.

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The defination of normal is that which is acceptable behavior by the majority of the populace. Therefor when the "gays" outnumber the hetrosexuals at that time they will be known as normal. Until then they will be known as abnormal,odd,different,queer,anything but normal.
So they should stop trying to be accepted as
normal by all the rest of the normal people.
If you take the "gay" side it's either because you are or are related to one.

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Wow, this really is a shame that the conversation concerning this article has digressed into a whine fest about homo/heterosexual rights. Am I the only idiot that believes that there is more to this issue than that? According to the article a teenage boy was able to make an allegation with no evidence to back up his claim but was still awarded twenty-five thousand dollars and will probably bring about the destruction of two teachers' careers. If such comments were made then by all means, fire the teachers, BUT I did not read anything in that article that sounded like evidence of this boy's claims. My shock comes from the fact that so many of you are more concerned with flinging slurs at one another concerning homosexuality (which has practically nothing to do with this article considering the young man said he was not homosexual, despite the nature of the teachers' supposed taunts) but none of you are looking at the fact that these teachers were denied a basic American right. To be considered innocent until proven guilty. It's a shame that something so important seems to mean so little.

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Those inconsiderate excuses for teachers. They are sopposed to be the ones educating our young children. Instead they breed hatred. Saying that this student was gay was so uncalled for. If i was that young man i'd take these teachers and sue them in higher court and make them give up their licence to teach. To teach hatred is evil. The boy never stated in any form or fashion he was gay. Who is the adult and who is the student. Hard to tell since these teachers are beyond help!

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I am with the teachers, and I am sure if the truth were known the vast majority is also. I'm proud to be a homophobe, and will do whatever I can to make life unbearable and miserable, for queers. They are worthless gobs of protoplasm, a scurge on the good people of this world.

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As for the teachers in question, if it is proven that they in fact did make these comments to this kid, they should be fired.

How this all turned into a discussion on gay marriage and gay rights on the message board is pretty silly, but since it's already out there, I will throw in my two cents. Why should two people who care for each other NOT be allowed to enjoy the benefits of "marriage" just like everyone else ? This is such a ridiculous debate. This is the year 2009, and there are still dummies walking around demonizing people because they happen to love someone of the same sex. So what !! Some people need to grow up and mind their own goddamned business. If you don't agree with homosexuality, that's your choice, but it doesn't give you the right to deprive homosexuals of the same rights that you enjoy.

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Ya know what.. i am not gay as well and don't support anything they stand for now or ever. However this isn't about who is gay. It's about pieces of shit who pretend to be teachers and pretend to set good examples for students that go about condemning a student for what? The lad never said he was gay. WTF is the teachers envolved problem? They are sending the wrong message that it is ok to pick on a student. Just be damn lucky i don't live over in that school district. If my boy was picked on by some dipshit teacher for no just cause, he best be doing some mighty good explaining to me right in my face. I dislike teachers strutting around thinking they can say and do anything they want to because they have a contract with the school district and they have a teachers union ect. Stop name calling and act like a teacher not a bully. Just remember that same student you picked on could be your boss....haha

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Oh the deranged minds that have become the voice of the human race...
Truly, hate has no base besides insecurity, fear, and envy. Those who wish to 'nuke a queer' - Are you insecure? Are you afraid? Are you envious? Let go of your negativity - where has it gotten you?

Too many arguments are obviously uneducated - how sad. Perhaps, it's because more and more teachers are too busy imposing their personal beliefs onto the impressionable minds of students, rather than actually teaching.

Has anyone been made aware of the fact that one can be unsupportive of homosexual rights without harbouring such hostility? It's true, just in the way a vegetarian is unsupportive of meat-eating, for example.

We can only hope that the teachers mentioned in the article (which was the catalyst to all this nonsense - remember?) have had their erroneous ways brought to light.

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Can we get this back to the actual article? First off the young man in question said he is not gay. Adolescents have enough issues figuring out and exploring their sexuality that they do not need the people who are supposed to be their role models belittling them. If it turns out that he is homosexual think about the pain that this situation is going to cause by stunting him emotionally for the next several years. This world is changing so fast that teachers need to be there for emotional support and help there students in their personal growth.

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Well-said, Stacy.

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Billy Thompson 9-20-2009 @ 10:58PM
Paul, you are so right. I am like you, I hate Gays, Negros,Catholics, Japs and Jews, And I don't stop there, I hate Mexicans, Cubans, Chinks and worst of all, I hate Eskimos. Eskimos aint nothing but a cross between a Mexican and a Catholic turned inside out. But beyond these people, I love everyone else,because I am a good Christian...I would love to meet you Paul, and we could have a HATE IN, and bring our children, so they could learn the proper things in life. And Oh by the way, I use to love Jesus until I found out the jerk was a Jew. I hate Jews too.
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HILARIOUS COUNTER-POINT BILLY!!!!!!! lol

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Douglas 9-20-2009 @ 10:07PM
To Layna 9-20-2009 @ 8:16PM
Re: What rights are you losing, dumbass?
The rights of the person you are calling dumbass, is the right of free speech and the right to have there own opinion and be able to express that opinon. That is the right he or she is losing, and if a person believes marriage is between a man and a woman, they are called homophobes. I think that the word phobia pertains to some form of an illness, which means that homosexuals feel that anyone who does not agree with homosexual marriage is sick.
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LMAO...ahhh, Douglas, you gave me a good laugh. Please go back to school, so you can learn that PHOBIA is a fear of something, NOT an illness. Which makes your whole post null. People like you are entertaining to a point, because of the pseudo-intelligence portrayal. Making ignorant comments and trying to pass them off as fact.It's back to the drawing board for you...

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DAVID RUFFO... Wow, your comment made me laugh soooo much. It's a classic! We need more David Ruffo's out there with that type of sense of humor and positive energy. We are all in this together to make this world a better place either Mr. Paul likes it or not. Wake up Paul! There's a 100% chance that your kids will know or know of a gay person in their life. Either it be a teacher, doctor, co-worker, dentist or even more common, a relative and/or a friend who's gay. You even probably have a gay relative or friend you don't know of existing at this moment in your life.

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There's gotta be something more to this story. No teacher should mock a student for anything, but what teacher would ever make fun of a student for doing a report on Ben Franklin? Something has to be missing here.

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Not only should these teachers be fired, they should lose their licenses to teach. They don't belong in a classroom.

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