Daphne Beasley, the Tennessee principal who kept a list of students who were romantically involved and exposed a gay couple to their parents and other students, was attacked for her actions by the American Civil Liberties Union. In a letter responding to the ACLU's attack, the Memphis School Board said that Beasley did nothing improper. Beasley's Hollis F. Price Middle School is on the campus of LeMoyne-Owen College and took action in response to a complaint from the college that some of her students "were involved in explicit sexual behavior in public view on the college campus," 365gay.com reported. ...

Source: WMLT-TV ABC24 , AP via Tenneseean , NBC News via WCSH Memphis, TN - At Monday night's Memphis School Board meeting, a small but vocal group of parents and community members gathered in the back of the auditorium waiting to speak their minds about a high school principal who outed two gay students at her school. "I'm disgusted," Memphis parent Natasha Burnett told WMLT's Eyewitness News Everywhere . "I'm disgusted by it." A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union that was made public last week accuses staff at Hollis F. Price Middle College High...(read more) ...

More on the Memphis principal accused of outing two gay students at a college prep on the grounds of one of the nation's historically black colleges. The Memphis City Schools now says Principal Daphne Beasley did nothing wrong and acted... ...

Remind us not to send our imaginary children to Memphis public schools. Administrators there have basically cleared principal Daphne Beasley of any wrongdoing in the student outing scandal. Officials released a statement today assuring parents - and press - that Beasley did not intentionally out two gay students and, in fact, was looking out for everybody’s best interest, if you can believe that. Yet, in said statement, they also allude to “explicit sexual behavior,” which sounds like a euphemism to us… …In fall 2007, we received numerous complaints from LeMoyne-Owen College faculty and staff that some of our student ...

It would be nice to believe that school board members would defend the children they are elected to protect. Sadly, when it comes to gay students they too often choose to circle the wagons around the misbehaving principal instead. This was the response of the Memphis School Board towards the reports of homophobic and inappropriate behavior on the part of Daphne Beasley, principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School. Beasley is accused of compiling a list of potential romantic couples and then using the list to harass and discriminate against two male students who were dating. When the ...

The Hollis F. Price Middle College High School is undoubtedly a successful school. As a collaboration between the Memphis school district and LeMoyne-Owen College, it provides an opportunity for gifted African-American students to earn credits towards their college degrees while still in high school. And by selecting only 150 of the district’s best students, it avoids many of the problems that plague public schools: fighting, truancy, and falling educational standards. And Hollis F. Price has admirable stated ideals and intentions including We believe that every member of our learning community has value and worth and has the right to be ...