Woodburn, Indiana … where intolerance is the norm
April 28th, 2007 | 
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Amy Sorrell, a 30 year old High School teacher (English and Journalism), was placed on paid leave, will be transferred to another school and is still facing being fired.
Her ‘crime’?
Failing to report to the principal a controversial article in the students’ own newspaper for which Mrs. Sorrell served as an adviser.
What was so ‘controversial’?
Student Megan Chase wrote an editorial calling for tolerance of gays.
Yes, you read that right: not only did Woodlan High School censor the students’ own newspaper, it also deemed a plee for tolerance ‘controversial’!
Such an outrageous display of homophobia by an institution that we entrust our children to for education is as maddening as it is scary.
“The school administration has said in no uncertain terms that she’s not going to be given a journalism position”
Ah, right, yes, God forbid that she teaches the kids at the other school such dangerous notions as freedom of speech and press!
Mrs. Sorrell said that she is proud of the student who wrote the article, but that she has no money to fight the decision.
Sounds like a perfect case for the ACLU: not only are certain elements of the school’s administration clearly overstepping the boundaries of their power to promote and push their own narrow-minded views, they are also brutally abusing the rights to free expression of both the students and Mrs. Sorrell.
They should be stopped! This is outrageous.
(Even so outrageous that one has to wonder if there’s not more behind the story than meets the eye)
Link to article: link
(and yes, I know, that picture is sickening too. Comes from that deranged lunatic Fred Phelps, America’s Ueber-homophobe!)
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Posted in Emotions, Opinions, Religion, Sad, Spitting Nails
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“Even so outrageous that one has to wonder if there’s not more behind the story than meets the eye”
Ah, maybe this played a role too: “Sorrell is also known for not being afraid to speak up.”! Tsk tsk tsk … How DARES she!
See link for more on Amy Sorrell.
Note: Sorrell has requested a board hearing, which was granted and will be held today. May 1st the board will vote on contract termination.
If you read the above article about Mrs. Sorrell, you will probably agree that it’s extra sad that this is happening to a very good, dedicated and well-liked teacher, the kind we need MORE of, not less.
And yes, there IS a little (!) bit more to the story (as usual).
Note: it was the CLASS that refused (as it is the students’ newspaper, not the school’s), NOT Mrs. Sorrell! Of course, with her strong feelings about the first ammendment it wouldn’t be a surprise if she has had an advisory role in this, but still… She HAS that right. Arguably even the obligation, to remind her students of their constitutional rights!
See link
But let’s not forget: the bottom line is that people panicked when something positively was said in reference to gays!
Oh, and according to that nutcase Fred Phelps, God doesn’t only hate fags, he hates Sweden and Canada too!
(I must assume
FredGod has never heard of the Netherlands, else he would have hated that country too! Although, in the Netherlands you go to jail -offending a leader of a befriended foreign nation- for publishing something like this: does this guy have NO manners at all?)It was, of course, to be anticipated (though not by Freddy-boy, else he would have registered it himself .. goes to show how smart this guy really is!) that a site like this would ‘air’.