The school system in Republic, Missouri.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:49 pm
This town makes me embarrassed to have done my undergrad in this state. Fortunately, the town is a suburb of Springfield, which is nowhere near St. Louis.
First a professor from Missouri State University who lives in Republic whines that three books teach "principles contrary to the Bible" and has two of them banned from school. The book they kept deals with a date rape victim (which is ironic when you see what I have next), and the books they banned dealt with someone dealing with the death of her boyfriend by falling in love with someone else ("too much sexual promiscuity") and the other was Slaughterhouse Five, which was one of the biggest depictions of gays getting persecuted during the Holocaust (which goes against the Religious Right's message that gays were the culprits in the Holocaust). But for whatever the reason, there is the freedom to read. Book bannings are one of the few things that are intrinsically un-American in my opinion. If you don't want your kids reading a book then don't let them read it. Don't take away the rights of other kids to do so.
The second reason Republic sucks is completely apolitical. It's this. And this is even worse than the book banning. In a nutshell, a girl was raped by her classmate in the library. She reported it to the school but the school didn't believe her. After she dropped the report due to pressure from the school, the school forced her to write a letter of apology to her rapist for accusing him of rape. After that, the school decided to expel her for filing a false report (which wasn't false).
She returned the next year to school on condition that she wouldn't file any more reports the school thought to be false. Again she was raped by the same classmate. This time she and her mother went to the police and the rape kit proved that she was right. The school still denies that she was raped, however, so she had to sue the school. Who is in charge of this school system that they would allow a boy to rape someone in the library?
Seriously. If you have kids, don't move to Republic, Missouri. -CSM
First a professor from Missouri State University who lives in Republic whines that three books teach "principles contrary to the Bible" and has two of them banned from school. The book they kept deals with a date rape victim (which is ironic when you see what I have next), and the books they banned dealt with someone dealing with the death of her boyfriend by falling in love with someone else ("too much sexual promiscuity") and the other was Slaughterhouse Five, which was one of the biggest depictions of gays getting persecuted during the Holocaust (which goes against the Religious Right's message that gays were the culprits in the Holocaust). But for whatever the reason, there is the freedom to read. Book bannings are one of the few things that are intrinsically un-American in my opinion. If you don't want your kids reading a book then don't let them read it. Don't take away the rights of other kids to do so.
The second reason Republic sucks is completely apolitical. It's this. And this is even worse than the book banning. In a nutshell, a girl was raped by her classmate in the library. She reported it to the school but the school didn't believe her. After she dropped the report due to pressure from the school, the school forced her to write a letter of apology to her rapist for accusing him of rape. After that, the school decided to expel her for filing a false report (which wasn't false).
She returned the next year to school on condition that she wouldn't file any more reports the school thought to be false. Again she was raped by the same classmate. This time she and her mother went to the police and the rape kit proved that she was right. The school still denies that she was raped, however, so she had to sue the school. Who is in charge of this school system that they would allow a boy to rape someone in the library?
Seriously. If you have kids, don't move to Republic, Missouri. -CSM