Texas School Pays $77K for Kicking a Student's Behind Out of the Closet to Her Mother

dont_mess_with_gay_texasIn 2009, a beatnik school district in east Texas committed a social faux-pas. In fact, the egregiousness of this redneck, knee-jerk, the-village-just-found-its-missing-idiot debacle cost Kilgore ISD more than $77,000. Why?

According to the Longview News-Journal, young softball player Skye Wyatt was confronted by two coaches and accused of a lesbian relationship. She denies it because she had a call from the united sisterhood of its none of their damn business. To wit, they called her mother to inform her that her daughter was gay.

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