School employees made up crap about student

When most folks read stories like this, disbelief sets in - unless they're familiar with one of these really bad school districts where schools are known for their insane vendettas against individual students.

The Anoka-Hennepin school system in suburban Minneapolis must be one such district.

I've been informed that 2 teachers there launched a long-running harassment campaign against a high school student. They falsely claimed the male student had a "thing for older men" (because he did a report on Benjamin Franklin) and liked to wear women's clothes.

This wasn't just a matter of hurt feelings or the type of crude themes found in private conversation. This was part of an ongoing pattern of high-handed abuse.

The conservative intelligentsia criticizes me for being too crude and vulgar, yet they don't seem to mind when school staffers harass a teenage student by making false insinuations about his sex life.

The school system's attitude is borne out by its refusal to fire the 2 instructors who harassed the student. The school district fell over itself offering excuses for its lax treatment of the offending teachers - even though Minnesota law clearly says teachers may be fired immediately for such misconduct.

The sprawling Anoka-Hennepin school district has long been known for right-wing social engineering stances - a form of cheap elitism. True to form, this community is largely within Michele Bachmann's congressional district.

One gets the feeling that the Anoka-Hennepin school system is a strange, cult-like parallel universe that tolerates those who sheepishly follow the schools' ways - but leaves a life of wreckage for those who do not.

(Source: http://www.startribune.com/local/north/53591317.html)