Alcohol_IV
03-07-2007, 11:45 PM
Suspension postponed for teenager who read ’vagina’ line (http://news.bostonherald.com/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=187042)
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. -- One of the three high school girls suspended for including the word ”vagina” in a school reading of ”The Vagina Monologues” was told Wednesday her punishment had been postponed.
Hannah Levinson, 16, was to serve a day of in-school suspension at John Jay High in Cross River on Wednesday, staying out of her classes and having lunch with only a guard for company.
But Levinson said that soon after she arrived, Assistant Principal Lisa Kor told her the punishment would be postponed at least until after a Board of Education meeting on Tuesday.
Calls to the principal and the district superintendent were not immediately returned.
”I really hope they’re reconsidering their position,” Levinson said. ”We still think we did the right thing.”
She and fellow honor students Megan Reback and Elan Stahl, all 16-year-old juniors, read an excerpt from Eve Ensler’s play at a Friday night event sponsored by the school literary magazine. School officials had warned them not to include the word ”vagina,” but they did and each received a day’s suspension.
Reback, who was to serve her suspension Thursday, said she had not been told officially of any postponement, although she had heard by ”word of mouth.” Stahl was to serve her suspension Friday.
The students’ defiant stand was applauded by the play’s author, who said Tuesday that the school should be celebrating, rather than punishing, the three juniors.
”Don’t we want our children to resist authority when it’s not appropriate and wise?” Ensler said.
Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls were punished not because of what they said but because they disobeyed orders not to say it. He said that because the event was open to the community, including children, the word ”vagina” was not appropriate.
Reback said no one in the audience was younger than high school age. ”What did we do that was so wrong?” she asked. ”We were insubordinate, but the reason we were insubordinate was that we talked about our body.”
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"Hehehe, ahhh, she said vagina." "Hehe, yeah..."
I support the discussion of teenage vagina.
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. -- One of the three high school girls suspended for including the word ”vagina” in a school reading of ”The Vagina Monologues” was told Wednesday her punishment had been postponed.
Hannah Levinson, 16, was to serve a day of in-school suspension at John Jay High in Cross River on Wednesday, staying out of her classes and having lunch with only a guard for company.
But Levinson said that soon after she arrived, Assistant Principal Lisa Kor told her the punishment would be postponed at least until after a Board of Education meeting on Tuesday.
Calls to the principal and the district superintendent were not immediately returned.
”I really hope they’re reconsidering their position,” Levinson said. ”We still think we did the right thing.”
She and fellow honor students Megan Reback and Elan Stahl, all 16-year-old juniors, read an excerpt from Eve Ensler’s play at a Friday night event sponsored by the school literary magazine. School officials had warned them not to include the word ”vagina,” but they did and each received a day’s suspension.
Reback, who was to serve her suspension Thursday, said she had not been told officially of any postponement, although she had heard by ”word of mouth.” Stahl was to serve her suspension Friday.
The students’ defiant stand was applauded by the play’s author, who said Tuesday that the school should be celebrating, rather than punishing, the three juniors.
”Don’t we want our children to resist authority when it’s not appropriate and wise?” Ensler said.
Principal Richard Leprine said Tuesday that the girls were punished not because of what they said but because they disobeyed orders not to say it. He said that because the event was open to the community, including children, the word ”vagina” was not appropriate.
Reback said no one in the audience was younger than high school age. ”What did we do that was so wrong?” she asked. ”We were insubordinate, but the reason we were insubordinate was that we talked about our body.”
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"Hehehe, ahhh, she said vagina." "Hehe, yeah..."
I support the discussion of teenage vagina.