Leadership at Twin Peaks K-12 charter school outside Boulder, Co is under fire for banning its graduating valedictorian from giving a speech in which he would have come out as gay. Even worse, the schoolâs principal called the studentâs home in the days before the ceremony and outed him.
Evan Young earned his spot behind the podium at his schoolâs commencement. The 18-year-old graduated with  a 4.5 GPA and a scholarship awaiting him at Rutgers University. He planned on giving a speech themed around openness, honesty and acceptance, an irony given the fact that school Principal BJ Buchmann responded with the opposite.
âOne of my themes is that I was going to tell everyone my secrets,â Young explained to the Daily Camera. âMost of the things were stupid stuff â books I never read that I was supposed to, or homework I didnât like. But then I gradually worked up to serious secrets.
âMy main theme is that youâre supposed to be respectful of people, even if you donât agree with them. I figured my gayness would be a very good way to address that.â
Buchmann felt it was inappropriate for Young to come out at the ceremony, and requested that portion be taken out. Young stood his ground, and a few minutes before Young was to take the stage, he was informed the entire speech was canceled âto protect the solemnity of the evening and to preserve and protect the mission of the school.â
And hereâs the real kicker â prior to the ceremony, Buchmann called Evanâs father, Don, who has previously served on the charter schoolâs board of directors, and outed the teen.
âMr. Buchmann called me and said, âIâve got Evanâs speech here. Thereâs two things in it that I donât think are appropriate,'â Don Young recalled. âOne was he had mentioned another studentâs name. And then there was his coming out that he was gay.â
LGBT advocacy group Out Boulderâs board President Ann Noonan called the incident a âtotal violation of his educational privacy rights,â and the group is planning to host a private event to give Evan the opportunity to present his speech and be recognized as the accomplished and promising student that he is.
âI think what it mainly showed is that he didnât have a lot of sympathy for me, or someone in my position. He didnât understand how personal a thing it was, and that I wasnât just going to share it with people randomly, for no reason,â Evan added.
Michael Davy
Principal should be fired.
Jake Riley
What a complete and total ass.
Jimmy Radosta
Please share your thoughts with Principal BJ: [email protected]
BigG
that principle needs to be reprimanded.
Robb Forehand
Dan Steele
Sounds like an attorney is needed.
Sharna Horn
Fire this principal!
ingyaom
4.5 and this guy is going to Rutgers? Did Princeton reject him?
Alex Cameron
This guy should take legal action even if he gay this must be human Rights or some kind of homophobic hatred outing this young guy good luck to him and play safe
Christine Alexander
This principal has no place in education.
Bob LaBlah
Here’s a saying that I have live long enough to see it is true: As you grow older you begin to see both sides of the fence. The year this kid was born was the same year I began to realize I had better start thinking a little bit harder about retirement and cut out a lot of b/s that I was engaged in.
“âOne of my themes is that I was going to tell everyone my secrets,â Young explained to the Daily Camera. âMost of the things were stupid stuff â books I never read that I was supposed to, or homework I didnât like. But then I gradually worked up to serious secrets.”
Excuse me, Son/Daughter, Boulder, Colorado doesn’t come close to being like the “hills” that I was born in and had no other choose but to grow up in and accept its “values” however it too is conservative. I do regret saying this but not enough details about this incident have been given for ME to accept everything you are claiming at face value. My main concern is what was it you were going to say about the other student who was going to be mentioned by name in your speech and these “secrets” that you insisted the entire world be told. What were these “other” secrets that you didn’t mention (and yes, out of fairness to you I do accept that you may have mentioned them and this site didn’t post them) that you felt the entire world would cease to exist unless you told them? Personal internet porn video of you and some one else? WHAT WERE THEY?
Considering how your speech was going to be the speech of the year the principal HAD to have read this speech a day or two before hand and, in my opinion (though I can’t prove it) asked to see it again before you were suppose to give it. What ever it was your father seems to have been in agreement that that speech was NOT going to be given. No where in this article is any indication given that he objected to the principals decision.
Yes, times have changed quite a bit since I was in high school (computer downloaded music as compared to the transistor radio’s we listened to with a wheel to find the station) but I do have my limitations as to what is appropriate. Think along these lines in comparison: I wasn’t the only student back then (1974) that there was a feeling amongst the faculty weren’t “exactly right” as I overheard several of those drunk…..er, um, teachers saying in the office one day. But I seriously do doubt that sow of a valedictorian we had to listen to would have gotten away with talking about the recently gay pride riot NYC and Christian values in comparison. Sorry kid, but I stand with your dad and principal on this one.
It seems hard to believe YOU didn’t think to simply get together with a few of your classmates (whom had no problem with your being gay), keep the caps and robes on, go to a designated spot, give your speech while they filmed…sorry..videoed it, and put it on Youtube.com so everyone could hear what you just HAD to tell the world. As I said, times have changed and we must learn to compromise while still understanding and accepting the values of others, whether we like it or not. All evidence is pointing to you were going to go overboard on this one. I feel I am not the only one who would HAVE to see a complete copy of that speech to accept your side of the story.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: Do you have anything nice to say about the stories you comment in? Your attitude towards this kid are vindictive and ridiculous and you reading way too much into it. Do you really not like young people this much? It seems to me there is a lot of bitterness this guy was born in a different decade than you.
Lighten up man. Life is too damn short to be jealous and resentful of others. You stand with the dad and principal on this one? Why is that? He would be better off in the closet and had a fake girlfriend? Even I had a fake girlfriend for a while in high school and tried to present a different image of myself.
He had every right to say it in the speech he wanted to do so and what the principal did was unethical and should lead to his dismissial. Overboard on what? He mentioned it once in his graduation speech he was going to give from what I’ve read.
You are one resentful bitter old man who would rather young people live in the closet. This isn’t the 1970s or 1980s anymore. It’s 2015. You need to stop being so bitter.
Bob LaBlah
Look everyone. Am I too dreaming that not ONE word of profanity was used in response to my comment from ol’ you-know-who? I mean I must have really hit home for the intellect to have come out of THIS one. I can only guess one of two things: either no money for partying last night (for a change) or she’s older than she’s let on in the past (which I bet is the case).
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: Considering half of your post is incoherent bullshit (OOPPSSSSS!!!!!), I tried my best to make out what you were saying. Most of what you said is without merit and evidence.
You’re a bitter old man.
And she? LOL. I am a guy. And I was born in 1985. I’m not older than I claim to be, though I will be hitting 30 this month. Anyways, have a nice day bitter old man. You can dream about days long gone all you want.
Cam
“âI think what it mainly showed is that he didnât have a lot of sympathy for me, or someone in my position. “”
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Please stop with the B.S. I get that the kid was trying to be nice, but this is not the time for it. Evan, it isn’t just that he didn’t have sympathy, it’s that he’s a bigot. He wouldn’t have stopped you if you had announced you were engaged to a woman.
cflekken
Well, I just might be the only one who feels this way, but I agree with the principal. Evan was going to use his position as valedictorian in a very selfish manner, making it all about him. I would agree with him speaking about openness, acceptance, etc. But to come out and basically take the moment away from every other graduate is very self-serving (though I’d bet that NOT ONE person would have been surprised by his admission). There’s a time and a place to come out. A graduation ceremony where hundreds of others are celebrating their accomplishments isn’t one of them.
Bob LaBlah
@cflekken: “(though Iâd bet that NOT ONE person would have been surprised by his admission).”
You noticed the obvious too, huh? I bet everyone else but “ol’ castanuelas” will see that obvious neon sign in the middle of his forehead will too.
Charlie in Charge
@Bob LaBlah: OK, It’s very hard to understand what it is you’re trying to say but it sounds like you think the 18 year old is being over the top (were you ever 18?), valedictorians shouldn’t share overly personal information (have you attended a graduation?), and also you think the kid is obviously gay.
1. He got the 4.5 GPA, he earned the right to decide what to address.
2. Valedictorians talk about their journey and their class’s journey. Just because it would have you clutching your pearls doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have been inspiring to the students.
3. Internalized homophobia isn’t a good look for you
denny155
Wow!! for a moment as I was scrolling down through comments it looked as though the comments were no longer with regards to this gifted young man and his courage. For shame. Oh! And the principal is douche!!
ted72
It was an illegal at called violating Federal Education Rights to Privacy. Act
Bob LaBlah
@Charlie in Charge: I stand by what I stated in my first comment: I would have to see the entire speech to take his side of the story. Case closed. Jury dismissed.
I do applaud this 4.5 GPA (in NYC I intentionally sought out gay doctors, dentist… here, back home, get real, or face reality is what I have no other choice but to do) but not his decision NOT to omit what the principal and his father saw as inappropriate for the audience. And by the way, what does his father do for a living? I doubt the principal didn’t take certain things into account before calling him and letting him know what was going on. There is a LOT more to this story many of you have not taken into consideration and are starting to sound like….
As I pointed out I was young once and things were different as compared to now. However, I looked at it from both sides and without ALL the details and based on what Queerty printed here I have to side with the “old folks” on this one.
Giancarlo85
@Charlie in Charge: Bob was 18 back in the 1940s I think. He’s just a bitter old man who has no clue what’s talking about. He can’t even remember the time he was 18. That was too many decades ago. Now he sits in a shack somewhere in Mississippi or some other state… and cries about days long gone.
He gets angry when he sees young men like Evan Young finding a voice because he never had that voice… and he still doesn’t. Bob is someone who has always been in the closet.
Somebody needs to tell Blah that it is 2015 and not 1955.
4runnergui
As an educator I am constantly amazed by the censorship of graduation speeches. If the content is being delivered in the spirit of the celebration, then why was this particular speech censored?
Captain Obvious
What a waste of space that “principle” is.
Black Bart in DC
I admire this young man’s strength and confidence. And I am happy for him and others of his generation that coming out is safer and easier (notice I didn’t say safe or easy, just safer and easier) not than it was in years now happily gone by.
BUT, I have to say that I respect the right of the Principal to determine what is and what is not appropriate content for a valedictory speech. Full disclosure: I’m an educator and have been in similar positions myself with college students. And my opinion is that the occasion is not solely about the valedictorian, and 18-year olds don’t always have the maturity and perspective to know what is appropriate under different circumstances.
It is very characteristic of a teenager to think that a podium with a microphone is the best way to communicate something. But I for one would recommend outing oneself to closest friends and family members first.
As far as the principal’s disclosing this to the father is concerned, I would not have done that. But the principal may, in good conscience, have felt he needed to and should. Their students and their welfare are entrusted to schools, their administrators and teachers. And while we may disagree with the decisions these people make, they are not outside their rights and responsibilities to engage parents in matters concerning a student’s academic conduct and personal well being when they deem it necessary.
And by the way, Ted72, there’s no FERPA violation here. It relates almost exclusively to academic standing, performance and related records. Student conduct information is not restricted as thoroughly.
Black Bart in DC
I admire this young man’s strength and confidence. And I am happy for him and others of his generation that coming out is safer and easier (notice I didn’t say safe or easy, just safer and easier) now than it was in years now happily gone by.
BUT, I have to say that I respect the right of the Principal to determine what is and what is not appropriate content for a valedictory speech. Full disclosure: I’m an educator and have been in similar positions myself with college students. And my opinion is that the occasion is not solely about the valedictorian, and 18-year olds don’t always have the maturity and perspective to know what is appropriate under different circumstances.
It is very characteristic of a teenager to think that a podium with a microphone is the best way to communicate something — especially something sensitive and for the first time. But I don’t know that a graduation platform is the best place to communicate news as momentous as being gay to the whole world. I for one have always thought that this news is best communicated to one’s closest friends and family members first. If for no other reason than to perfect one’s one story and give loved ones a chance to come to grips with it.
As far as the principal’s disclosing this to the father is concerned, I would not have done that. But the principal may, in good conscience, have felt he needed to and should. Their students and their welfare are entrusted to schools, their administrators and teachers. And while we may disagree with the decisions these people make, they are not outside their rights and responsibilities to engage parents in matters concerning a student’s academic conduct and personal well being when they deem it necessary.
And by the way, Ted72, there’s no FERPA violation here. It relates almost exclusively to academic standing, performance and related records. Student conduct information is not restricted as thoroughly.
Bob LaBlah
@Black Bart in DC:”Iâm an educator and have been in similar positions myself with college students. And my opinion is that the occasion is not solely about the valedictorian, and 18-year olds donât always have the maturity and perspective to know what is appropriate under different circumstances.”
Being an educator and dealing with college students and 18 year olds had you been in a situation where you had a prominent son/daughter of a powerful black person who was about to stand in front of an audience at Howard (hypothetical) and give a controversial speech after refusing to alter it after being told to do so would you allow it and risk the wrath of the parents of not just the student but others who felt the same way or allowed it and risked your FATE from parents who could make your life a living hell due to the power the parents wield? This is BOULDER, Colorado we are talking about. As in a place where medium home prices alone start around $600k, if you get my drift. I would not be surprised if middle class there were those who only make $150k per year to the majority of them. Anything less your on the same level as East L.A.er’s.
I stand with the principal. His sexuality and what goes on today be damned things are still the same as they were (more or less) back in the 1940’s (or whatever other decade any low rent district, high heel wearing immigrant wants to imply that my thinking belongs in). Certain places ARE liberal and don’t mind certain things, as long as it ain’t “my son or daughter doing it”, which I bet is the case here. I see a situation where had he not the reaction from the adults would have been “off with his head for allowing that speech”. Was the person he was going to mention in the speech aware of it and what was to be said? We don’t know yet but it seems a bit odd if they had it wouldn’t have been reported.
It is sad many of you did not learn to “read between the lines” on a national level and learned to “look around you” but the world, regardless of the many changes it has gone thru, is still the same in many places, more or less. And Boulder is one of them. Why should this guy (the principal) risk the wrath he no doubt would have faced had he not done what he did? The day of the speech, the speech of his life (so far at least), whose to say he didn’t get “grand”, or in diplomatic terms, belligerent, and say he was going to give it HIS way and didn’t care who didn’t like it? Again, I support his decision and again, I, just as the majority of you who are basing opinions on what has been printed so far, don’t have all the details to say anything different about how I/we feel about it.
Charlie in Charge
@Bob LaBlah: “There is a LOT more to this story many of you have not taken into consideration and are starting to sound likeâŚ. As I pointed out I was young once and things were different as compared to now. However, I looked at it from both sides and without ALL the details and based on what Queerty printed here I have to side with the âold folksâ on this one.”
Well the fact that there is “more to this story we aren’t aware of” certainly hasn’t stopped you from coming up with your own crackpot theories like that the valedictorian’s dad is siding with the principal. You keep saying “old folks” as in plural but this is based on your own fantasy version of the scenario. You also claim to know what the principal took into account in this situation… is it tin foil hat time?
In 2015, it is unacceptable to keep a valedictorian from giving a speech because he was going to mention that he is gay. “Case closed. Jury dismissed.”
Davidlen
Bob laBlah the difference between you and 18 yr old Evan…he had the guts to come out, you didn’t, end of story. Incidentally I know gay men of your vintage, they are thank God not sour and gutless as yourself. Stay in the closet, the dsrk suits you.
Giancarlo85
@Charlie in Charge: Don’t bother with bob. He has delusional fantasies and reads more into a story than what is there. He made everything up and he doesn’t have the slightest clue about what is going on. He is stuck in a time warp too where he thinks it is better for guys to be in the closet like he has been for decades.
Bob is a spineless gutless coward who even goes after younger people on here. The younger people on here are out and he isn’t and never has been.
Then he makes stupid statements like this:
“(or whatever other decade any low rent district, high heel wearing immigrant wants to imply that my thinking belongs in)”
Maybe he thinks I got implants too… what a douchebag. I am a guy. I’m not trans. I do not crossdress.
Sometimes I Think Bob is a 12 year old in a 75 year old man’s body.
Bob LaBlah
@Charlie in Charge: Your lack of subtly proves my Howard hunch correct.
Bob LaBlah
@Davidlen: At least the ones who find you attractive aren’t is what I am sure you meant to say.
Davidlen
LaBlah, so now you perv from your closet at the good looking youngsters. More and more you unwittingly reveal about your sick self. Suggest you close the door, the odour is overpowering
Bob LaBlah
@Giancarlo85: I don’t recall mentioning anyone by name, whether legal or illegal (hint, wink or in your case, snarl). But since, in your case, the high heel does fit then honey wear it and switch on down to happy hour at Arena.
polarisfashion
I’m curious to see what conservatives will say about this. Pat Robertson will probably say something like the principal is following orders from God or some other goofy shit like that. Faux News will probably declare him a hero if they haven’t already.
Bob LaBlah
@Davidlen: “the odour is overpowering”.
Your spelling and punctuation sure as hell aren’t. Wonder what drug infested part of the world YOUR from? Valedictorian you sure as hell weren’t either.
Davidlen
LaBlah..that air freshener fixed it, much better.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: Um dumbass… I’m actually a US Citizen, so you can scratch that illegal claim off your list. YOu don’t even know what Arena is.
Giancarlo85
@Davidlen: I don’t think even febreze could get rid of his stench. Bob showers about once a week… and hasn’t actually seen a man naked since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. I have a little pity for him.
Al Chiasson
I HATE that this is still happening, but sadly NOT SURPRISED.
Steven Za
Lawyers… please start now
Johnny Angelo Paccini
THAT NOT FARE
Bob LaBlah
@Giancarlo85: “YOu donât even know what Arena is.”
Considering the cover charge, the price of drinks and your Carl’s Jr. salary I’ll bet you don’t either.
RobvR
I wonder how the principal would have reacted if the boy outed himself as a blue eyed person that had brown eyes all these years due to contacts. Or if he outed himself as being jewish or a diabetic. Probably it wouldn’t have been an issue. Why shouldn’t he be allowed to say who or what he is? He never choose to be gay, just like a black student never chose to be black. Yet the black person will be allowed to speak about his color but the gay student not about his sexuality. By reacting this way the principal made this a big issue while it shouldn’t be. Very sad.
Evelyn Batton
I agree w principal. It’s not appropriate at a graduation. What connection does it have other then to purposedly stir up trouble
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: Free before 11. And I already went over the fact I work for a public utility. So Carls Jr salary huh? You are a blithering idiot. Keep repeating the same lies. It isn’t my fault you are a broke old man.
1EqualityUSA
you guys are being so mean to each other. Solar flares? c’mon, snap out of it.
Cam
All the people talking about what is and isn’t appropriate to deliver in a valedictorian speech and that it shouldn’t be about them, cut the crap.
If he had been talking about struggling to come to school because he was homeless for a while, and had to work to help support his mother who was injured the Principal would never have cut the speech and people would be applauding his bravery.
It is only because the dreaded “gay” was mentioned that some of the self haters are clutching their pearls and bringing out their smelling salts. Valedictorian speeches are about their journey and if his journey included rehab, juvenile hall, or other struggles it would have been allowed.
Stop feeding into the bigotry that gay is somehow inappropriate. If he was going to propose to his girlfriend, the principal would have allowed that and we all know it.
Charlie in Charge
@Bob LaBlah: If you’re as delusional as this with your students, you really should not be working with students.
Bob LaBlah
@Charlie in Charge: Dear, I never said I work/worked in education. I am a retired, 18 wheeler-over-the-road truck driver who went to a community college because it was determined by all (and I admit myself, they were right) I was NOT university material. I come armed only with what many lack nowadays, common sense.
This kid lives in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder is a community that more or less accepts todays norms and such. There are MANY things they have accepted as todays norms, I am sure, (gay kids, gay student associations……) but the bottom line for many in that community, as is obvious with the fathers decision, goes like this: “as long as it is not MY son or Daughter.” The same was true for integration back in the 1960’s for some communities as in “Ok, I have no problem as long as THEY are not dating my son or daughter.” Hopefully some of you will start figuring out now why MANY people have no problem with gay marriage AS LONG AS IT IS NOT THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER WALKING DOWN THAT AISLE or in my church. Yes, kids, that it the mentality more or less of many whom deep down are NOT as accepting as the majority of you seem to think.
I say again, there is “something” about this kids speech that made the principal lose his monocle and demand a revision that he (the kid) isn’t telling. The kid said no, this is MY fifteen minutes, not yours. The principal called his father and his father sided with him. Parents rule and the reality of Boulder won out. The parents provide the “room and board, cell phone, Mac (who the hell still uses Windows other than ol’ castanuel…you all know who I’m sure) and money for other miscellaneous items. To have a 4.5 grade point average I am sure he hit the books more than partying at places such as Are…..anyway. It sounds like he had a conservative family who had their own set of rules and ideas as to what is appropriate. Did he wait till now to stand before the world and turn into what they all saw as a flaming…….anyway, I doubt if we will ever know because this is no different than any other incident where as you hear his version, their version, and lastly what actually happened. I doubt if we will ever know what actually happened because it seems hard to believe the principal did not call him off to the side for a private talk. Again, I doubt any of us will ever know.
I was influenced by the “old school” mentality, regardless of being post-Stonewall, more or less (1974). It translates to you will have a “say” (which in our community was less than two years old) but overall, you WILL do what you are told because YOU are not the boss. To give you an idea of how my community was a teacher caused a big ruckus and had other teachers leaving out of their classrooms and walking by our door just to see her in a PANTS SUIT. Female teachers in those days had a DRESS code that was ETCHED IN STONE. For the rest of the school year she and the others wore dresses. You all have no idea when I think back to that day how bad I wish cell phone cameras instead of Polaroid cameras were available.
Believe me when I say “you all missed the party.” I think of that incident every time I see stories such as this. I am not BITTER about anything and personally don’t have a problem with how people arrived here in the U.S. of A, whether via swimming the Rio Gran……..have a nice day everyone.
Cam
@Bob LaBlah:
Look, you have the automatic assumption that there was a valid not bigoted reason for the Principal to have cancelled the speech.
If that was the case, please give us your defense of him calling and outting the kid to his father.
Valerie Anderson
Really wrong! Awful principal!
Bob LaBlah
@Cam: ” If that was the case, please give us your defense of him calling and outting the kid to his father. ‘
Now who’s delusional, you or me? Son, I have on numerous occasions in this thread given my defense of the principal AND the father (you know, that guy who took girl featured in the article to her soccer games and such even though in the end it obviously didn’t make a man outta her). I tell you, the way many of you are defending this little shit starter ( whom I bet didn’t get her ass beat with whatever happened to be laying around but sent to “her” room and laptop as punishment or had her flat screen tv taken……..anyway).
You are being cynical and sounding more like ol’ Taco Bell (don’t EVEN try to tell you don’t know who is being refer….anyway) than a San Fernando Valley born and bred white twink. Are are you a third gener…….are you over in Alhambra? Are you j o-ing to my ol’ frust…er, um…… to my brief…er, um, beliefs and upbringing as you read these posts? And by the way, it’s the middle of the afternoon. If you DO work at night why aren’t you asleep by now and if you don’t just how long is your lunch break? Or do you even work? You seem to be paying a lot of attention to an ol…….to my wisdom here these past few days. I don’t pay for……..anyway. Wait a minute. Now I figured it. How r things over at Best Buy? I heard nearly no one shops there anymore due mainly to the young smart mouthed, poorly paid ass customer service reps who have to be pried off of their cell phone instead of sell things to old folks who know they don’t need any of it…..well I’ll be damned. I would have never…try having a good afternoon, kid. Take care and be sure to tell all of your friends on Grindr ol’ Bob LaBlah said hello. Especially your “benefactors”.
Cam
@Bob LaBlah:
That was certainly a lot of words that didn’t answer my question.
Bob LaBlah
@Cam: You “question” has been answered. All you have to do is go back and find the comment containing the “neon sign” and presto, your light bulb (regardless of the low wattage) SHOULD go off. How can you OUT the OBVIOUS?
Look, the job aint about shit, I admit, but don’t get yourself fired from it. Books do cost money and you must stand proud so that the next generation can look back on Cinco de……………….
Cam
@Bob LaBlah: said…
“@Cam: You âquestionâ has been answered. All you have to do is go back and find the comment containing the âneon signâ and presto, your light bulb (regardless of the low wattage) SHOULD go off. How can you OUT the OBVIOUS?”
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Yeah, it’s so obvious that you are seemingly unable to cut and paste it here. Yeah, it’s REALLY obvious isn’t it?
Bob LaBlah
@Cam: ok, OK junior. I surrender. YOU and ol’……..as far as I am concerned, it’s OVER and once again me, you and ol’ south-of-the-border are friends again. As I said, please leave it alone so you don’t get yourself fired for staying the bathroom stall as long as you have. After all this time there is no way even I would believe the Imodium AD they took up a collection for and bought you has not kicked in. Had you worked at studying as hard as you do sarcasm you wouldn’t be where you are in that stall on THAT type of job, would you?
That’s one good thing this kid in the article has going for him, his smarts. Now if only he learns common sense while he is away from home he should turn out pretty good, though I do wonder what his reaction to those self centered, buns, abs and bicep queens he is about to be around in neighboring NYC will be. He will learn FAST that area and its inhabitants sure as hell ain’t like Boulder. I hope he does know that he is going to the same school that the poor kid who was video taped by that immigrant terrorist (who got away with it more or less) and jumped off of the G.W. Bridge in NYC went to the same school and no doubt there are many more waiting for naive kids like him to arrive.
As I said, as far as I am concerned, we are all friends again. Now please, lets drop it.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: You can’t even make a coherent statement nor have you ever answered any questions. You just go on stupid irrelevant tangents. Learn how to address the topic. You are a bitter nasty old man with a rotten disposition. And all you do is look at porn all day. Go get a life.
Bob LaBlah
@Giancarlo85: I vowed way back in January of this year I wouldn’t ask this from you but I guess now is as good a time as any: tell us again what type of trans-gender you are. It’s obvious you and Camacho are enjoying my comments (where as most people have the good sense to leave my old borderline senile ass alone) but I need accuracy so when I jump over to that article regarding that OTHER degenerate, Bruce Jenner (I wish the hell I would call that STILL a man Caitlan, or whatever that thing with a dick is calling itself) and you appear out of thin air I can include your lonely ass in it.
Go head, tell us again what the hell it is you are describing yourself as.
Black Bart in DC
@Bob LaBlah:
Gosh, I don’t have the remotest idea what your point is.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: I’m not transgender. Why do you think I’m trans? I don’t care for Jenner one bit, or her family. You are seriously immature. A whiny miserable man.
hyhybt
Bob: why the “guilty until proven innocent” attitude? You say you can’t take his side without full information (knowing full well it will never be available) yet you have no problem taking the principal’s side so vehemently with the same lack of information?
As for outing him to Dad… a bad idea, and in some circumstances, of course, a dangerous one. But in this case, he’d have known after the speech anyway, so it doesn’t make so much difference.
Bob LaBlah
@Black Bart in DC: Considering your NAME, LOCATION….to bottom line it, why should I be surprised that you don’t?
@Giancarlo85: Queen, if you go back to your NUMEROUS rants during winter you stated many times that you were a something-or-other type of gender that no one seemed to be able to figure out either and you know you are a GOD damn lie saying you never said it.
@hyhybt: “Bob: why the âguilty until proven innocentâ attitude? You say you canât take his side without full information (knowing full well it will never be available) yet you have no problem taking the principalâs side so vehemently with the same lack of information?”
Girl, to respond to that question amounts to child abuse which as you can see I am guilty of whether I like it or not. As I said, I wish this little Boulder princess luck once she reaches the east coast and realizes he is now in the land of the sharks. I bet within two weeks he will support all of Colorado’s gun laws and may even drop the gay thing and join a supremacists group once he gets a load of those rag heads and such he is now all but incarcerated with at Rutgers and heads back home to mommy and daddy. You know Rutgers, the school where Yoga Kawasam (or whatever the hell his name was) video taped that poor whit…..the poor kid who had no idea his sexual encounter was being taped……..whats the use.
Ok, the old queen will take up with you girls tomorrow where he left off. Have fun at the gym and tell all the gang in waiting for their turn on the butt machine (or what ever they call it) and those standing in front of the 7-11 who are looking for work too, Giancarlo, that I said hello. Of course since Bally’s over on L street N.W. closed in D.C. this does not apply to you, Howard U. but just keep your phone at the ready with 9-11 and you should be able to give a good discrip…..well, anyway. Good night folks.
David Andrew Roubideaux
Just comes to show he’s better than the school & he’s better than his principal!
J Alexander Steel
after hearing his speech, I don’t really think it was appropriate either – but that should have been addressed with him in advance. this article makes it seem very profound, but his speech was littered with cheesy jokes and “idk how i got good grades I was a bad student”. There was a small segue, after his coming out, about understanding and acceptance in the form of “hug people” but it really wasn’t as eloquent as it was made out to be, and truthfully, could have been left out.
having said that, did the principal act correctly? no. should he have met in person with the student, discussed it, and advised him in advance? yes. should he have contacted his parents and outed him? absolutely not. Is that even legal? I doubt it with the way most privacy clauses are. Could he have advised his parents of changes to his graduation program, citing a disagreement/disobedience as a reason? yes.
it’s nice that queerty posted something that wasn’t fake though. well, we’ll find out in a couple weeks I guess. I just hope it doesn’t affect his scholarship.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: Oh please. I never said that. I said I was androgynous. What the heck are you implying? I am still a guy and I said that numerous times.
You really are a disgusting old man. Next thing you will say that I’m a ladyboy or something like that. Get a life… Go play bingo with your neighbors in the retirement home you live in.
Cam
@Bob LaBlah:
And once again, you kept claiming that you had offered a logical explanation earlier in your posts, and when I asked for it the first time, you name called, rambled on, and then said to go find it, the second time, you attacked a bit more, and the third time, you just rambled on.
So that seems to be your game, put up a bunch of posts, and then claim you said something you didn’t if anybody asks you a targeted question.
One thing I will say, people usually attack others with what they fear may be their own issues, not always, but often enough. Reading through your posts, I hope that isn’t the case, because if it is, you have a huge number of problems.
Bob LaBlah
@Giancarlo85: Rest assured, honey. I AM going to search back over those months UNTIL I find the what-ever-the-hell-the-name is you called yourself during your never ending rant on those threads. Sounds like someone is shitting in their panties because they know they ARE going to be exposed as a fraud. TOO bad and TOO late to kept you silly ass mouth shout now, isn’t it? Yes queen, I am going to stretch HIGH and LOW. Stay tuned folks.
@Cam: Based on your response YOU obviously aren’t even community college material. Just to let you know, Best Buy is facing fierce competition from online retailers and may close even a few more stores. But don’t worry, not only is Target turning out a profit but there will always will be stock boy positions available. Hopefully you can land a position out in the San Fernando Valley where you can earn “extra” after semi-flashing your Andrew Christian jockstrap at older male shoppers with a few dollars (about $50 depending on your waist size and not too many stretch marks showing) to spare.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: The only fraud here is you. You are a stupid liar. I only called myself androgynous. You can live with that or not. Not my problem.
Giancarlo85
And Bob, if I were you I would not attack other people regarding their education. Considering you don’t even have a high school education, spare us all your misery. You are an uneducated dumbass.
Bob LaBlah
@Giancarlo85: In the United States YOUR educational credentials won’t even be recognized, so why even go there? Scared about being exposed, honey? Just wait. I told you MONTHS ago to learn to shut your mouth but there was the problem. You would have been LEARNING to do something, wouldn’t you?
Now lay your ass down and go to sleep so you can be nice and rested when you get to your night job pushing that vacuum cleaner across MY type of people’s office floor.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: My educational credentials were earned in the United States, moron. I finished graduate school in the United States and I also am a US citizen. So shut your disgusting stupid ignorant mouth you old bitter ass.
Sit your ass down, shut up and stop being a dumb ass. You live in a retirement home. You don’t work. You’re always on. You retired like a decade or two ago. You are a nobody with no money and no life. It wouldn’t surprise me if you access Queerty from your local library.
buffnightwing
BOB LA BLAAAAAA
IS LIKE MADONNA, ALL WASHED UP, OLD, ANGRY, AND pretty much an UFLY OLD THANG!
BOB people LIKE YOU SHOULD BE SHOT ON SITE!
buffnightwing
BOB LA BLA
Like an festering syphilis lesion with herpes and gonorrhea all pushing to the top.
new word
i have the LA BLAAAA
triple infections of STDS.
buffnightwing
Bob La Blaaaaaa
Hating on young queer kids since 1809!!
buffnightwing
BOB LA BLAAAAAHHHHH
Heres hoping you get herpes and it never goes away.
sincerely
the young generation!!!! đ
buffnightwing
Bob La Blaaaa
Fat ass drag queen that can’t lose weight and HATES on cool people and young gay guys!
Dude you a serious mental piece of work.
Made me sign in and comment for the FIRST time in ten months!
Bob la lba or whoever you are, go away and back to YOUR TROLL BRIDGE!!!!!!!!
go away OLD TROLL
go back to world of warcraft where you belong
Damich
Why is it that people who attend Christian schools/ companies expect the red carpet when coming out? Or they expect to NOT be discriminated against. Surely they must know the Chrisitian faith has for 1000s of years been hostile to LGBT. So what’s the deal? Shear stupidity?
wwerts1
What give the principle the rights to call his father and outed him in the first place, my suggestion is that they fired him, at least they did let him do his speech applauded.