Comments on: May Day 2008 Wanderings. http://machineplay.com/signal/2008/05/01/may-day-2008-wanderings/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:33:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: wyvernfree http://machineplay.com/signal/2008/05/01/may-day-2008-wanderings/comment-page-1/#comment-52 wyvernfree Thu, 01 May 2008 20:56:08 +0000 http://machineplay.com/signal/2008/05/01/may-day-2008-wanderings/#comment-52 I saw that story about the high school principal earlier and was horrified. I can't even imagine what she thought she was doing posting lists of high school students rumored to be couples. How is that anyone's business but their own? If she was worried about PDA in the hallways then she should have patrolled the hallways and admonished students she found behaving inappropriately, not put out an APB on every known or rumored couple in the school just in CASE they tried anything like that! As well as the danger to the one gay couple of being publicly identified this way (which I imagine increases their likelihood of being harassed), how much do you want to bet that at least one of the pairs the staff guessed were romantic couples was actually NOT? Way to ruin their year... I couldn't be surprised if high-school students engaged in this childish kind of rumor-mongering but you would hope the adults would have better things to do. :P I saw that story about the high school principal earlier and was horrified. I can’t even imagine what she thought she was doing posting lists of high school students rumored to be couples. How is that anyone’s business but their own? If she was worried about PDA in the hallways then she should have patrolled the hallways and admonished students she found behaving inappropriately, not put out an APB on every known or rumored couple in the school just in CASE they tried anything like that!

As well as the danger to the one gay couple of being publicly identified this way (which I imagine increases their likelihood of being harassed), how much do you want to bet that at least one of the pairs the staff guessed were romantic couples was actually NOT? Way to ruin their year… I couldn’t be surprised if high-school students engaged in this childish kind of rumor-mongering but you would hope the adults would have better things to do. :P

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