From Missouri's Republic School District...

...most recently known to you for banning Slaughterhouse-Five and Twenty Boy Summer from their high school library, I bring you this ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING NEWS STORY (believe me, caps are justified here) at the Springfield News-Leader:

A lawsuit filed against the Republic School District alleges school officials failed to protect a middle school girl from a male classmate who harassed her, sexually assaulted her, and raped her.

It gets much, much worse.

So, yeah. Clearly the school board should chill out about the library books and maybe work on the whole PROPER WAY TO HANDLE A SEXUAL ASSAULT thing. Or even PREVENTING them in the first place.

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Comments

[sassymonkey]

Perhaps they ought to focus less on what books are in the stacks and more on WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THEM? OMG.

[LG]

It's the head-in-the-sand way of thinking. If we don't recognize and do something about bad things that happen in our school, then nothing bad happened in our school. After all, in their minds their students are all little angels, at least until certain horrible, filthy books are allowed in and warp their perfect minds.

The full article is just awful and sad.

[Heather]

Wow. I cannot BELIEVE those School Officials. They sound horrid.

[Sarah]

They made her personally deliver her apology letter to her rapist.
School District Superintendents:[email protected] ; [email protected] ;school principal [email protected]

[University Dubai]

Really interesting topic and i think its provide a great information,anyway keep it up these type of interesting topics.i will wait for the new ones

[Steve]

There was a school in Texas that made a cheerleader cheer for her rapist on the football team. When she refused they expelled her. There is definitely a feeling around the country that goes with the tea-party movement that males are always being unjustly accused of rape by evil females...