Not quite there yet:

[jrittenhouse]

(Update: I’m noting this story about Frankfort, KY schools and their handling of gay students, but I’m beginning to think it’s a crock.)

Stephen Fry:

• his blog (he’s a big techie)
• his letter to his 16 year old self.  About love, mostly.
• -on manic depression
• -on his new BBC series on the USA (which I’m about to dig into)
• -on hate and anti-semitism (he’

Comments

[qnofhrt]

Kentucky high school administrator orders teachers not to let their gay students go to the bathroom.

....words fail me. At least words that I would put in a lj post.

[jrittenhouse]

This may be a hoax; see below commenter.

[stickmaker]

This supposedly came to light when someone intercepted a private memo written by the assistant principle at my old high school, which prohibited allowing gay students to go to the bathroom together. It was front page news in the local paper yesterday. The school says there was no such memo.

I suspect it's a hoax some student(s) started to stir up exactly the sort of trouble it has.

One news article:

[jrittenhouse]

http://www.state-journal.com/news/article/4578983

(I imagine that's the one you mean. I'll correct the above article to say 'claimed' and so on, because I dunno if it's for real, as per your note.)

Re: One news article:

[stickmaker]

Yeah, that's the article. I don't have any more information than what's there. My suspicion of a hoax is based on both personal and indirect knowledge of high school students and their pranks, and the fact that this is the first news about gay students at the school to appear in our paper within my memory. There simply hasn't been much publicly stated concern about gay students before now. This is a state capital, and even local officials are pretty politically aware. A memo like that just doesn't make sense.

[stickmaker]

There's a strong dichotomy in most of Kentucky, a conflict between modern urban and traditional rural which has less to do with where someone lives than how they were reared. A few years ago students at a Kentucky school started a rumor that one of the teachers was a witch. Most people just shrugged it off, but a few parents raised such an hysterical stink the woman was fired.

Both sides can be gullible in certain areas. Push the right buttons, and you can get an asymptotic response from one side while the other dismisses the stimulus as invalid. That lack of concern can actually increase the response of the other side.