Arkansas school board caught cyber-bullying student advocate for LGBT rights
A school board member in Arkansas stands by disparaging comments she made on Facebook regarding a student advocate for LGBTQ rights, ArkansasOnline reports.
In a statement on Friday, Bentonville School Board member Rebecca Sue Powers defended herself against charges of cyber-bullying a local public school student. Though she insulted a child on a public Facebook page, Powers says her “comment was meant only for private discussion… I am sincerely sorry that these remarks became public, and I sincerely apologize for any hurt this has caused to any student who believes I was identifying them.”
Powers argues in her statement that, “as usual in debates about homosexuality and cross-dressing, when these divisive issues are forced on school boards by those who wish to normalize harmful behaviors to impressionable children, supporters of these categories make accusations of ‘bullying’ when confronted by the truth.”
“I am disappointed that the media has run a story that I have ‘bullied’ a student in (the Bentonville School District), when it is untrue,” Powers clarifies to ArkansasOnline. “It is not ‘bullying’ to state an opinion that an unnamed student’s behavior was ‘rude and disrespectful,’ or to comment on potential motivations for that behavior.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/arkansas-school-board-caught-cyber-bullying-student-advocate-for-lgbt-rights/
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