What happens when anti-gay bullying comes not from students but from a school’s administration?
Several lesbian former students say administrators at Del City High School, southeast of Oklahoma City, are discouraging gay students from graduating.
One girl, Kelsey Hicks, says the principal told her to drop out and get her GED because, “You’re gay, you’re not going to do anything with your life.”
Another, Melissa McKenzie, said she was expelled from Del City after moving in with her girlfriend. “He [the principal] said if you go back to your mom’s house, you can go back to school.”
Both Hicks and McKenzie also say they were kicked off the Del City High School softball team.
A third girl who graduated from Del City High School said a school official once told her that being gay is an “unhealthy lifestyle.”
“He had found out that I was gay and he was on my case about every little thing,” she said.
According to KWTV Channel 9 in Oklahoma City, the school district issued a statement saying the three girls aren’t current students and none of them has filed a complaint.
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Stay classy, heteros!
Always stay classy.
By encouraging students – any students – to drop out of school he is undoing the work of countless guidance counselors, teachers, school administrators, and well paid consultants who work to keep students in school. He should be forced to give the taxpayers their money from his own pockets.
Kelsey Hicks didn’t drop out of school. She went to night school and then decided she wanted to return to Del City High School about a month later. McKenzie’s girlfriend lives out of the school district and that means she would have had to move back in with her mom to go back to Del City. They got kicked off of the softball team because they were making bad grades not because they were gay!!! The amount of Lesbians/Gay/Bisexuals that have graduated from that school in the last five years is a huge number. Many have held honors when graduating, played sports (have taken our sports teams to the state championships), and even held offices in the school’s clubs. There is something seriously wrong with this picture. The principals under fire are some of the best principals I have had a pleasure meeting and I could never see them saying something like that. In fact, those principals have helped students who were Gay/Lesbian graduate who probably wouldn’t have otherwise. The facts in this story are so wrong.
I don’t think we are getting the whole story. This is just too hard too believe.