More mess from my home state.
A School Board member has exercised his right to be an idiot. Van Shaver found an article on Zac Mitchell, a gay student in the Lenoir City High School yearbook to be alarming.
So what does he do?
This fool calls for a criminal investigation on the faculty advisors for allowing the gay article to exist.
Knoxnews.com reports:
On his blog, Loudon County school board member Van Shaver called for a criminal investigation into the faculty advisers. Shaver said he believes in being tolerant of an others' life choices but said he is concerned that the students are being unduly influenced.The sad things about all of this are the reactions. According to some of the students and a faculty advisor, folks are putting out petitions to tear out the gay article from the yearbook or ban the gay student from their own graduation.
"What I am intolerant of is an adult, a teacher no less, inflicting their personal beliefs and sexual orientation decisions on impressionable students," Shaver said.
The journalism student said she was given the assignment to write the story by the student editor of the yearbook. The faculty advisers did review the suggested topics but did not try to influence the students, she said.
"My journalism professor never once pressured us to have certain beliefs," she said.
Check out Van's post on this issue after the jump
