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The following are emails from Joe Quigley.
(Posted 7-9-03)

(7-8-03) In a message dated 07/08/2003 6:53:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ttcarter@okcps.k12.ok.us writes:

Joe-
 
   I will set up the meeting once the timing is appropriate.
 
                          Tammy Carter

That has been said before, in 1998 and the time never seemed to be appropriate. If it were, there would have been meetings. As a lawyer, I am sure you know that the definition of terms is important if there is to be clarity. And so, I respectfully request a clarification as to what exactly is the appropriate time, and by what will we recognize it.
You know this is just a stall, and not really all that original of one. It is the one used from 1998 on. Would the appropriate time be before or after a child is injured? I am really curious about this. The appropriate time would seem to be before school opens not after a child is harmed physically as well as mentally.
   I was really optimistic after our meeting. Trusted the words I heard. Same ol' same ol.
C'MON.
Joseph Quigley

 

 

(7-8-03)

Mr. Sotto:


I am writing to request a meeting to discuss a topic that has a direct bearing on the safety and wellbeing of our students. You may be familiar with this from previously sent emails. You may also be aware of the heculean effort and energy expended to avoid this necessary discussion. It is a mystry why so much is expended to prevent clarifying that Gay and Lesbian Students are protected by District policy, unless this is a statement by the district that these students are not as equally protected as others, or we have chosen to dismiss them as unimportant and their wellbeing ignorable.
  The offer to review 6 years of documentation which could reveal how vulnerable the district may very well be if a parent or student were to pursue the matter in a court of law has met only with reluctance and refusal to go over the documentation leaving the district woefully uninformed of its possible position. One would think the district would like to be aware of the documentation that could potentially be used in a judgment against the district in certain legal matters.
  In 6 years many administrators both past and present have written what they believe to be the opinion and belief of the district, and none of this has been revisited. The old ounce of prevention may do the financially strapped district a bit of good.
    I am presently teaching summer school, but as it is over by 1:30, a meeting scheduled after 2:00 would be possible. After summer school is ended any time of day would be acceptable. But, one hopes the district will not stall.
I can be reached by emails, or at 521-0215.
   Thank you. I look forward to the meeting and the progress that will result.

Joseph Quigley
NWC


( Let me point out that when it comes to emails about the topic of making the inclusion of Gay and Lesbian Students clear in policies and programs and having in services for faculty and staff about the presence of these students in our schools, the often hostile environments they encounter each day, and the need for faculty and staff to learn and exercise a little sensitivity, I send copies of them to quite a few people. It is a tactic I learned from administrators, both past and present, who have over the past few years gone public when it seemed to be to their advantage either to present themselves as poor innocents, or to act like they were the Paul Reveres of morality warning the public that those people with a Gay Agenda are at the gates.)

 

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