Veronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as a perfect child: a straight-A student, goalie on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Drunk Driving.
She also is gay and feels more comfortable in boy's clothes. So, Rodriguez said she supported her daughter's decision to wear a tuxedo, rather than the drape customary for girls, when she had her senior portrait made in July.
But Rodriguez said school officials at Wesson Attendance Center, a K-12 school in the Copiah County School District, were not as supportive and have refused to include the picture in the school yearbook.
"The yearbook is not for the parents or the teachers. It's for the students," Rodriguez said.
I wish we, as open-minded individuals (hopefully we are) had the right to say to the school board, and an other, like-minded people "Oops, you mind is closed, your opinion is now deemed irrelevant. Bye bye. Have a nice day. Don't come back soon."
But then we would be stooping to their level. So hopefully one day they will see the error of passing judgement on others.
I am not a religious person, but didn't Jesus (or some other important biblical figure) say, "Judge not, lest yea be judged!" Whatever happened to that one?
Virginia wrote:Let me think -------------- uh?! 18 yeah, 19 yeah, 20th yeah, 21, DAMN this is the 21st Century, I thought so.
Why have some people remained in the "stone age?"
Virginia
Maybe because they can? Because it's easier than thinking? Because they find comfort believing we are all exactly alike? Because to them, ignorance is bliss?
huh i thought clothes had nothing to do with sexuality. you could wear a dress and still be a lesbian or wear a tux and be 100% hetero. I wore a gorgeously formal tux to my school leavers ball felt amazing.
In my daughters HS band there was a fairly overweight girl who refused to wear the standard girls concert wear which was a black gown. She was allowed to wear a tux. My daughter asked if she could do the same thing and was told no, that she looked nice in a gown and could not wear a tux.
As Frank Zappa said, there will come a time when you won't even be ashamed if you are fat. Prelude to a song titled "What's the ugliest part of your body" Last line of the song: your mind.
Zari
everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
Come on you people why do you think the world will ever change. People have been killing each other for centuries because you don't think the way they do.
