When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center's Yearbook on Friday, she didn't find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school's 2010 yearbook.
The ACLU wrote an October letter demanding officials use Sturgis' submitted photo in the yearbook, but Copiah County School District officials refused. Rodriguez said she expected the yearbook to at least contain a reference to her daughter on the senior page. What she discovered on Friday, when the yearbook came in, was that the school had refused to acknowledge her entirely.
"It's like she's nobody there, even though she's gone to school there for 12 years," Rodriguez said. "They mentioned none of her accolades, even though she's one of the smartest students there with wonderful grades. They've got kids in the book that have been busted for drugs. There's even a picture of one of the seniors who dropped out of school.
"I don't get it. Ceara is a top student. Why would they do this to her?"
What does it matter if she wants to wear a bloody tuxedo? Look, just because she is a lesbian is no reson to shit on her senior year. This child does not deserve this treatment and the school board should be ashamed of itself.
I have a question - if the standard "yearbook picture dress" for a girl is a "scoop-necked drape", what if I consider that to be immodest for my straight daughter?
Stupid gits. I am willing to bet that they did not police the kids walking around with their silly-ass pants hanging to the ground or the crop tops exposing the belly-button piercing, but a girl wants to wear a tuxedo for her yearbook picture so they take an Orwellian stance and make her an "unperson?" That blows.
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Seems to me like she got what she deserved. If you don't like the gay agenda, then the school's reaction to it shouldn't piss you off.
If some guy wanted to wear a drape, I'd hope they'd do the same.
Why should the rest of society subject themselves to the whims of the freaks?
What justification does the school have for excluding a student entirely from the yearbook? I mean, if a hetereosexual Goth kid appeared in appropriate drape with multiple stud piercings, that's okay?
For all I know, right now you have on clothing I find completely and utterly unattractive. Maybe it clashes. Maybe it's too tight. Maybe you've got the fashion sense of a bag lady. Who cares? I think there is a difference between not liking enforced acceptance of homosexuality and purposely setting out to ruin a kid's teenage milestone.
Digi,
Are we some kind of kindred spirits? Seriously. You use language that sounds like I am listening to myslef think.
And I think the treatment blows too. No reason to shit on her. It's not as though she wanted to include of picture of her making out with some chick. It's just a tuxedo. No biggie.
I am kinda with P. Nichols on this... I would hope the school would object to a drag year book photo with a guy in the drape wearing earings etc.
And did they *really* edit her out entirely? Her mom said she was a good student, but didn't mention if she was actually magna cum anything. Was she in any sports or actual school sponsor activities... debate team, SGA anything...??? Doesn't sound like it.
If she was then surely she would be in the group photos.
Sounds like she didn't want to conform, wanted to be a rebel blah blah blah but then decided to act all surprised and indigant when there was no photo of her.
I have no sympathy. It's called excepting repsonsibilty for the outcome of your decisions... and it's an excellent character builder.
Is it "Fruit Loops" - or is "Froot Loops" correct?
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