A Better Student-Boycott Story. In a
Nov. 13 posting, I noted a
newspaper account that said hundreds of students at a Kentucky
high school had stayed home to protest against the school's new
gay-straight alliance. But here's a more uplifting "students stay
home" story, this time from the Windy City. As the
Chicago Tribune reports:
Fearing that two girls voted "cutest couple" would be denied the honor because of their sexual orientation, about 60 students at
Crete-Monee High School walked out of class Tuesday in a show of support. But administrators said they never intended to deprive the two seniors of their title, only to seek consent from their parents before allowing the information to appear in the yearbook. ... The walkout was hastily planned after the school board failed to address the issue at a meeting Monday.
So at one American high school students boycott to protest gay inclusion, while at another they boycott to protest what they feared was gay exclusion. In a nation as idologically diverse as ours, this shouldn't be suprising. But the proponents of inclusion are clearly winning, despite the reactionary eruptions we're still likely to see from time to time.