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School policy murky on �gay� talk

Alexandria � Rapides Parish School Board policy is unclear on whether students may be punished for using the word gay or discussing homosexuality at school, like the 7-year-old Lafayette Parish pupil who gained recent national media attention, according to school district officials.

Ruby Smith, director of Rapides Parish student welfare and attendance, could not comment whether the word gay is considered a punishable obscenity in this school system.

Note that the child referenced used the word correctly, in context, and was speaking about his gay mother. The officials can’t say whether the word is useable or not because then they will be forced to decide individual cases on their own merit when the word is used.

I honestly don’t understand the problem. When my son says his penis is itchy I don’t have a problem with that. When he calls one of his brothers a penis then we have a problem. Why can’t the people being paid to make these comparisons in the Alexandria school system do the same thing? Instead they wish to remove ‘dangerous’ words from the approved school lexicon? But no, actually they don’t want to commit either way. They just want the kids to guess what’s allowed.