After her gay son was bullied in school and administrators didn't do enough to stop it, Chelisa Grimes decided to do something to protect her son: she sent him to school with a stun gun.
"I brought the stun gun 'cause I wasn't safe," the 17-year-old said.
After six other students surrounded him at school on April 16, calling him names and threatening to beat him up, Young pulled the stun gun from his backpack. He raised it in the air, setting off an electric charge, and sending the group scurrying, Young said.
Unlike a Taser, which fire barbs attached to long wires at a target, a stun gun has to be near or pressed against a person to shock them."I got kicked out of school for me bringing the weapon to school, but I honestly don't think that that was fair," Young said. "I didn't use it on nobody. ... All I did was raise it up in the air and went back to my class."
The school principal said that the staff had been trying to get him to "tone down" his flamboyant dressing style.
Do you think the expulsion order is excessive or a just response to someone carrying a weapon to school? Link
The homosexual lifestyle is not something to be encouraged, as a lot of research shows it leads to a much lower life expectancy, psychological disorders, and other problems. Studies show that homosexuals, for a variety of reasons, have life expectancies of approximately 20 years less than the general population. Just like a lifestyle of smoking, drinking, etc., unhealthy lifestyles should be discouraged.
that does not mean I condone the bullying either, obviously all parties were wrong.
And by the way HPR, you are not wrong - I'm with you all the way!
"If you wear female apparel, then kids are kids and they're going to say whatever it is that they want to say," Yarrell told The Star.
Yarrell had a job to do: enforce order and decorum in his school. He failed to do his job, so Darnell did it for him.
Oh, it's hard because some kids in his school are homophobes? Too bad.
BUT to tell this kid to tone down his look... really??
Ignorant A-holes.
Yes, the school did not do enough. But this was not the right response, either.
But to tell a gay kid "Stop acting gay!" is not actually a useful response to bullying.