Ceara Sturgis, a top student at Wesson Attendance Center in Mississipi, has been purged from the yearbook. She attended the school for 12 years, but she's also a lesbian, and so they made her an un-person.
Copiah County Superintendent Ricky Clopton explained the school's homophobia: "We have had our legal counsel research the validity of the position of the School District on this matter," Clopton said in a statement. Clopton went on to say that the decision "... is based upon sound educational policy and legal precedent."
("Sound educational policy" in Missouri apparently says that ostracizing students because they're different is "okay". I couldn't find the exact statute but I'm sure it's in there somewhere.)
Ceara's mother commented on the "un-personing" of her daughter:
"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?"
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That's an easy one to answer: they did it because the Wesson Attendance Center is run by a bunch of[span style="text-decoration: underline;"][/span] [a href="vny!://www2.mde.k12.ms.us/1500/WAC/wac.htm"]homophobic morons[/a]. The kind of people that are so [a href="vny!://www2.mde.k12.ms.us/1500/WAC/wac.htm"]afraid of gay and lesbian people[/a] that they would excise them from the school yearbook and then claim that doing so is "based upon sound educational policy".
