Fourteen yeaer old student shames Michigan school district

[Stella_Omega]

Jay McDowell, a teacher in Howell, Michigan, was temporarily suspended without pay earlier this month after telling a student wearing a Confederate flag and a student making anti-gay remarks to get out of his class. At a school-board meeting on Friday, openly gay 14-year-old high-school student Graeme Taylor came to McDowell's defense, thanking the teacher for doing "an amazing thing" in a town home to the KKK, and urging the school board to give McDowell his pay and reverse the disciplinary actions. The inspiring video has made its way around the Internet, because how cool is this kid?

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/fourteen_year-old_michigan_stu.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h10

 

[Wolfman1982]

Stella I was tempted to post about it yesterday, but I held back. But anyway I am actually proud of that young gay boy. Cause he spoke about homophobia, racism, Martin Luther King, and the KKK when he defended his teacher. In where the teacher got suspended because the teacher did the right thing in this case of all things. So I have some serious respect for that kid. Kudos to him big time.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Stella I was tempted to post about it yesterday, but I held back. But anyway I am actually proud of that young gay boy. Cause he spoke about homophobia, racism, Martin Luther King, and the KKK when he defended his teacher. In where the teacher got suspended because the teacher did the right thing in this case of all things. So I have some serious respect for that kid. Kudos to him big time.

I like it because it's positive news, in its way, not negative.

The kid's rhetoric and aplomb are so admirable.