Various sites are reporting a bizarre and troubling story that the principal of the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas shutdown its adult cosmetology class after concluding that one of the male students looked gay. Principal Thomas Amons is being accused of shutting down the whole program because he allegedly knew he could be charged with singling out the one student on the basis of presumed sexual orientation. An instruction. Amons is a deacon at a Baptist church.
Student Kwmane Gray, 22, (left) reportedly caught the eye of Amons. Instructor Cequada Clark is quoted as saying that “[h]e saw [Kwmane Gray] come into the class, and then he came to get me out of there” and told that Amons did not want him in the class. It appears that Amons was shocked at the appearance of a possible gay person in a cosmetology class. Clark says that she refused. After she went public, Clark says that she was fired.
The backlash has caused the district to announce a new cosmetology class.
Source: Dallas Voice
I don’t know how to boil water. I know how to make lasagna and spaghetti, but I’m not Italian.
Sorry, again I don’t understand what’s wrong. I think when it
comes to gay stuff it becomes a passive-aggressive response.
Student Kwmane Gray, 22, (left) reportedly caught the eye of Amons. Instructor Cequada Clark is quoted as saying that “[h]e saw [Kwmane Gray] come into the class, and then he came to get me out of there” and told that Amons did not want him in the class. It appears that Amons was shocked at the appearance of a possible gay person in a cosmetology class. Clark says that she refused. After she went public, Clark says that she was fired.
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Gay people don’t go to cosmetology class? Do they go to Home Ec? I never did, but some of the jocks did.
Holy crap! A gay student in a Texas school?? That’s just unforgivable, good catch idiotic Texas principal. The world remains a safe place. Now the cops in your state can go back to randomly beating on civilians: http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2012/09/14/cop-beats-teen-accidentally-fires-gun-claims-attacked/
In Sweden it is compulsory for both sexes. In the same classroom. How sexy is that? Not very, but effectively removes some prejudices. Sewing on buttons is difficult they say.
Lottakatz,
“How did they get those teeny tiny ‘eyes’ in those bone needles?”
You got me, it’s something I couldn’t do to save my life.
gbk,
Don’t blame you for being p…. There is no reason why boys shouldn’t be able to learn to cook and sew. Administrators who don’t allow children access to the classes they really want to take are not doing the students any favors.
You needed some good arguments. “honest, I won’t let my penis get in the way of the needle.” “would you keep Christian Dior from learning to sew? or Yves St. Lauren? or Calvin Klein? or Bob Mackey?”
Still angry. As well you should be. That’s the fact of discrimination, options deferred and foreclosed for no rational reason. It is a shame, a deep and abiding shame.
I have seen pictures as well as actual old needles, Stone age type stuff. I was always greatly impressed by them, some of them quite small and delicate. Bone is tough stuff, hard to carve. How did they get those teeny tiny ‘eyes’ in those bone needles? Even when needles were just little hooks (hook and awl sewing) it was still a serious tool. I’ve always been a tool maker and on more than one occasion when I needed a crochet hook to crochet up some little craft thing I have just started with a penknife and bamboo chopstick, a good hook requires work. I have also tried my hand at carving bone and it’s a very difficult medium. (Did badly at it.) I respect needles and the value of sewing and you’re right, clothing as a cultural advancement is underrated.