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		<title>By: Pam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Get generous to GetEqual. Please give today, we know the way.</description>
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		<title>By: Tim W</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well Vernon, lets take a look at this.  The only people I see saying bad things about the teachers and defending this Alex kid is people who do not even live in the state that it happened, nor went to the school that it happened.  I went to STEP and graduated in 2005, I had both teachers and the only complaint i have is that Ms. Cleveland gets distracted once in a while.  Both were and are upstanding teachers who never let teasing get to a hard problem.  what you are not understanding is that STEP is a COLLEGE environment that ALLOWS high school students to attend.

Also I seem to recall a time were if a male teacher pissed off a female student all she had to do was claim he sexually harassed her.  The teacher would be attacked and slandered even if the student was lying.  This seems to be the same case since numbers of students both past and at the incident side with the teacher.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well Vernon, lets take a look at this.  The only people I see saying bad things about the teachers and defending this Alex kid is people who do not even live in the state that it happened, nor went to the school that it happened.  I went to STEP and graduated in 2005, I had both teachers and the only complaint i have is that Ms. Cleveland gets distracted once in a while.  Both were and are upstanding teachers who never let teasing get to a hard problem.  what you are not understanding is that STEP is a COLLEGE environment that ALLOWS high school students to attend.</p>
<p>Also I seem to recall a time were if a male teacher pissed off a female student all she had to do was claim he sexually harassed her.  The teacher would be attacked and slandered even if the student was lying.  This seems to be the same case since numbers of students both past and at the incident side with the teacher.</p>
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		<title>By: a student</title>
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		<dc:creator>a student</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s called confidentiality.  Why spill all the beans?  Doesn&#039;t matter, you will see it again, only this kid will be the one to have to answer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s called confidentiality.  Why spill all the beans?  Doesn&#8217;t matter, you will see it again, only this kid will be the one to have to answer.</p>
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		<title>By: vernonvanderbilt</title>
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		<dc:creator>vernonvanderbilt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-215287&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a student&lt;/a&gt;: However, since you have elected to remain anonymous and not reveal your name, your &quot;corroboration&quot; means absolutely nothing, doesn&#039;t it?  Funny how those things work, huh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-215287" rel="nofollow">a student</a>: However, since you have elected to remain anonymous and not reveal your name, your &#8220;corroboration&#8221; means absolutely nothing, doesn&#8217;t it?  Funny how those things work, huh?</p>
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		<title>By: a student</title>
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		<dc:creator>a student</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can corroborate what Phil said.  I was a student in the class when this happened.  He was turned in for talking about the gun thing and a day or two later he brings this crap up.  Not only that, but the investigation done by the department of human rights?  They did the investigation without ever interviewing the teachers.  Never contacted them at all.  He claimed his harassment started in September, but waits until January (after the weapons violation) to say anything...?  It&#039;s fishy.  I hear the teachers have attorneys.  I hop they sue everybody.  By the way, I had both of these teachers when I went to that school and they were AWESOME.  Treated everyone fairly and with respect.  Very kind hearted people.  There is a real uproar with the students and they have started an organization to get the truth out and support the teachers.  Anything else you want to know?  Just ask! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can corroborate what Phil said.  I was a student in the class when this happened.  He was turned in for talking about the gun thing and a day or two later he brings this crap up.  Not only that, but the investigation done by the department of human rights?  They did the investigation without ever interviewing the teachers.  Never contacted them at all.  He claimed his harassment started in September, but waits until January (after the weapons violation) to say anything&#8230;?  It&#8217;s fishy.  I hear the teachers have attorneys.  I hop they sue everybody.  By the way, I had both of these teachers when I went to that school and they were AWESOME.  Treated everyone fairly and with respect.  Very kind hearted people.  There is a real uproar with the students and they have started an organization to get the truth out and support the teachers.  Anything else you want to know?  Just ask! :)</p>
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		<title>By: Jeton Ademaj</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeton Ademaj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>phil,

you need to substantiate those accusations...you&#039;ve made several, with no corroboration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>phil,</p>
<p>you need to substantiate those accusations&#8230;you&#8217;ve made several, with no corroboration.</p>
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		<title>By: Phil Moore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phil Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow - such name calling here. 

I am amazed at how quickly everyone jumps to the fight when the &quot;magic box&quot; in their living room gives them the facts.

I know the facts and, brother, you don&#039;t know the half of it.

This straight kid was caught by the school&#039;s liaison officer threatening to bring a gun to school.  The teacher turned him in with the officer&#039;s backing and THE VERY NEXT DAY he accused her and another teacher of gay-bashing him.  

So, junior here gets in trouble for threatening to bring a gun to school and mommy comes running down to the office to find out what happened - he needs to think quick!  They were calling me names and I couldn&#039;t take it any more, Mom!

So, now mom goes ballistic - she&#039;s divorced and this is the only man left in her life.  It&#039;s Mom who sues.  She&#039;s had some financial issues since the divorce and needs to rouse up some cash to stop a foreclosure... she offers to settle if the district will buy her house.  [FAIL] they don&#039;t go for it.

She then asks for $25,000 - the district does the math and sees that this is less than it would cost them to fight it so they sign off on the deal so long as everyone keeps quiet about it.

The brat gets his check, the teacher receive AN APOLOGY from the principal and everyone goes home.

The mom burns through the money and then goes to the Human rights commission looking for another payout.  This violates the terms of the deal and now they owe the 25k back.

Who&#039;s the stupid cow here?

Framing up two teachers so you don&#039;t get into trouble for threatening to kill your classmates, profiting from the lie and then going back to the well when you burn through the cash?  That horrible.  White trash, both the whiner and his dumb ass mother.

I live by these idiots - I know the real story.  They&#039;re losers that couldn&#039;t get on the day time trash talk shows.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow &#8211; such name calling here. </p>
<p>I am amazed at how quickly everyone jumps to the fight when the &#8220;magic box&#8221; in their living room gives them the facts.</p>
<p>I know the facts and, brother, you don&#8217;t know the half of it.</p>
<p>This straight kid was caught by the school&#8217;s liaison officer threatening to bring a gun to school.  The teacher turned him in with the officer&#8217;s backing and THE VERY NEXT DAY he accused her and another teacher of gay-bashing him.  </p>
<p>So, junior here gets in trouble for threatening to bring a gun to school and mommy comes running down to the office to find out what happened &#8211; he needs to think quick!  They were calling me names and I couldn&#8217;t take it any more, Mom!</p>
<p>So, now mom goes ballistic &#8211; she&#8217;s divorced and this is the only man left in her life.  It&#8217;s Mom who sues.  She&#8217;s had some financial issues since the divorce and needs to rouse up some cash to stop a foreclosure&#8230; she offers to settle if the district will buy her house.  [FAIL] they don&#8217;t go for it.</p>
<p>She then asks for $25,000 &#8211; the district does the math and sees that this is less than it would cost them to fight it so they sign off on the deal so long as everyone keeps quiet about it.</p>
<p>The brat gets his check, the teacher receive AN APOLOGY from the principal and everyone goes home.</p>
<p>The mom burns through the money and then goes to the Human rights commission looking for another payout.  This violates the terms of the deal and now they owe the 25k back.</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s the stupid cow here?</p>
<p>Framing up two teachers so you don&#8217;t get into trouble for threatening to kill your classmates, profiting from the lie and then going back to the well when you burn through the cash?  That horrible.  White trash, both the whiner and his dumb ass mother.</p>
<p>I live by these idiots &#8211; I know the real story.  They&#8217;re losers that couldn&#8217;t get on the day time trash talk shows.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve Rider</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve Rider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder if I can guess what brand of religious delusion these two teachers subscribe to.  Smells like Jeebus to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if I can guess what brand of religious delusion these two teachers subscribe to.  Smells like Jeebus to me.</p>
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		<title>By: WillBFair</title>
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		<dc:creator>WillBFair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course this is grotesque. But considering the charming treatment I got in school, I can&#039;t help but think it&#039;s an improvement. At least the creeps are being called on this, and maybe they&#039;ll get canned. In olden days, things were a thousand time worse. I&#039;m just saying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course this is grotesque. But considering the charming treatment I got in school, I can&#8217;t help but think it&#8217;s an improvement. At least the creeps are being called on this, and maybe they&#8217;ll get canned. In olden days, things were a thousand time worse. I&#8217;m just saying.</p>
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		<title>By: robotlovesmonkey</title>
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		<dc:creator>robotlovesmonkey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To be honest, I don&#039;t care how clean a teachers record is .. one incident of teachers joking about a student in front of his/her classmates is enough to suspend them in my eyes. Regardless of truth or the base of the joke be it race, religion, appearance, sexuality.. it is still harassment. If a teacher did it to a colleague they could be up on workplace harrassment charges so what is the difference.

The teachers should be suspended and the kid deserves a better learning environment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be honest, I don&#8217;t care how clean a teachers record is .. one incident of teachers joking about a student in front of his/her classmates is enough to suspend them in my eyes. Regardless of truth or the base of the joke be it race, religion, appearance, sexuality.. it is still harassment. If a teacher did it to a colleague they could be up on workplace harrassment charges so what is the difference.</p>
<p>The teachers should be suspended and the kid deserves a better learning environment.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Perdue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Perdue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>According to the Minnesota Star Tribune &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;State law allows teachers to be fired immediately for &quot;conduct unbecoming a teacher, which includes discrimination because of sexual orientation.&quot; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The Minnesota teachers&#039; union Education Minnesota took a very backward stance on this case. If their claim that they&#039;ve &quot;always advocated for human rights for all students&quot; is true why don’t they &lt;b&gt;lead&lt;/b&gt; the fight to have homohating bigots like Filson and Cleveland fired and banned from teaching for life? Instead, betraying all that unions stand for they represented these two pieces of human garbage to &quot;make sure district policies and contracts are followed.&quot; The Anoka-Hennepin School Board was even worse.  

Contact Education Minnesota at webmaster@educationminnesota.org and the Anoka-Hennepin School Board through http://www.anoka.k12.mn.us/education/components/form/default.php?sectionid=29367 with your opinions about their abandonment of Merritt, who’s straight, and of GLBT youth in general. 

Ask, as do the editors of the Minnesota Star Tribune, &lt;i&gt;why they weren’t fired and banned from teaching for life. &lt;/i&gt; 

According to Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigators these two piglets have a record. They &lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;&lt;b&gt;made regular &#039;gay&#039; jokes in the classroom, and did nothing to stop subsequent &#039;homo and gay jokes&#039; by classmates, sometimes smiling and laughing after the students comments.&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The actions of Filson and Cleveland are on a par with sexual abuse in their ability to do lasting harm to students. Merritt was lucky – he was able to change schools. That’s not always an option for GLBT youth. GSLEN, whose annual surveys regularly report that from 75 to 80 percent of LGBT kids are verbally abused which often morphs into violence and that large numbers simply leave school to avoid it. They hit the streets, miss their chance for a good education and the abuse degrades the rest of their lives. 

&lt;b&gt;Fire these pigs and ban them from teaching for life!&lt;/b&gt;


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Excellent comment Fitz.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to the Minnesota Star Tribune<br />
<blockquote><b>&#8220;State law allows teachers to be fired immediately for &#8220;conduct unbecoming a teacher, which includes discrimination because of sexual orientation.&#8221; </b></p></blockquote>
<p>The Minnesota teachers&#8217; union Education Minnesota took a very backward stance on this case. If their claim that they&#8217;ve &#8220;always advocated for human rights for all students&#8221; is true why don’t they <b>lead</b> the fight to have homohating bigots like Filson and Cleveland fired and banned from teaching for life? Instead, betraying all that unions stand for they represented these two pieces of human garbage to &#8220;make sure district policies and contracts are followed.&#8221; The Anoka-Hennepin School Board was even worse.  </p>
<p>Contact Education Minnesota at <a href="mailto:webmaster@educationminnesota.org">webmaster@educationminnesota.org</a> and the Anoka-Hennepin School Board through <a href="http://www.anoka.k12.mn.us/education/components/form/default.php?sectionid=29367" rel="nofollow">http://www.anoka.k12.mn.us/edu.....onid=29367</a> with your opinions about their abandonment of Merritt, who’s straight, and of GLBT youth in general. </p>
<p>Ask, as do the editors of the Minnesota Star Tribune, <i>why they weren’t fired and banned from teaching for life. </i> </p>
<p>According to Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigators these two piglets have a record. They<br />
<blockquote>&#8220;<b>made regular &#8216;gay&#8217; jokes in the classroom, and did nothing to stop subsequent &#8216;homo and gay jokes&#8217; by classmates, sometimes smiling and laughing after the students comments.&#8221;</b></p></blockquote>
<p>The actions of Filson and Cleveland are on a par with sexual abuse in their ability to do lasting harm to students. Merritt was lucky – he was able to change schools. That’s not always an option for GLBT youth. GSLEN, whose annual surveys regularly report that from 75 to 80 percent of LGBT kids are verbally abused which often morphs into violence and that large numbers simply leave school to avoid it. They hit the streets, miss their chance for a good education and the abuse degrades the rest of their lives. </p>
<p><b>Fire these pigs and ban them from teaching for life!</b></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Excellent comment Fitz.</p>
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		<title>By: Clarknt67</title>
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		<dc:creator>Clarknt67</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and the article is correct: &quot; that doesn&#039;t matter.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and the article is correct: &#8221; that doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Fitz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fitz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, hey-- if they are good teachers in general who occasionally eat one of the herd, that&#039;s to be understood.  Right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, hey&#8211; if they are good teachers in general who occasionally eat one of the herd, that&#8217;s to be understood.  Right?</p>
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		<title>By: vernonvanderbilt</title>
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		<dc:creator>vernonvanderbilt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A little bit of that research stuff will show you pretty quickly that Merritt has already said he&#039;s straight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A little bit of that research stuff will show you pretty quickly that Merritt has already said he&#8217;s straight.</p>
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