Few school districts have fielded the kind of PR shitstorm that got dumped in Willoughby-Eastlake’s lap this fall. When Willoughby South faced off against Eastlake North on the gridiron last month, the district rivals’ fans traded chants featuring festive gay slurs. A video went viral, and action news reporters came knocking. In a classy moment of “kids will be kids” excuse-making, school officials responded to questions by bitching about the bad press.
Now the district has an opportunity to get some good ink for itself and put a progressive foot forward. But it appears they’re not interested.
This article appears in Nov 10-16, 2010.
Turning away from children and human rights… good lord, that’s why I believe in Private School.. where most are zero tolerance in bullying, period… and that chant, it was not only offensive to the people that were there.. It was offensive to people who weren’t and believe me, if my child attended a school like that and he was even uncomfortable for a minute, which he would have been because he was raised right, I would have slap slap slappity slap slapped a lawsuit on this school as quickly as possible… you probably would have had the papers by the time the first bell rang. Get it together. YOU are the ones who TEACH tomorrows adults and YOU don’t think it’s right to TEACH these kids that it’s NOT OKAY TO USE DEMEANING WORDS TO BELITTLE PEOPLE? Well, I say that NO ONE should attend your school. Period. P.s. You, in that area, have a lot of gay/lesbians residing there… take THAT into consideration, most don’t even have children but do pay the taxes to keep you open. NEXT LEVY VOTE NO!
Actually, after hearing some info last night, I believe it’s illegal for you to not do anything under I believe it’s title 9. Hmmm…. maybe someone needs to check into that.