Instructor Cequada Clark told The Examiner that Principal Thomas Amons would rather close the Adult Cosmetology course offered through Beaumont Independent School District's (BISD) Taylor Career grove park inn asheville nc and Technology Center than to admit Kwmane Gray, a prospective male student whom Amons believes is gay.
"[Amons] told me he would rather shut down the program altogether than to have 'riff-raff' like that in the program," Clark, who has headed grove park inn asheville nc the adult cosmetology program since 2009 at BISD is quoted as saying. At first, Clark says she refused Amon's request to deny Gray admission in the program. "The next day, he shut down the program."
The Dallas Voice points out that BISD's legal counsel had advised Amons he couldn't prevent anyone from enrolling in the program, but he did have the power to end it entirely. Just days later, Clark found out she had been dismissed, and now says she will seek legal action.
Gray, 22, likened grove park inn asheville nc the principal's decision to an anti-gay hate crime. "He never even talked to me," he said. "He just judged me. I don't know and I don't care [why]; I just don't want him to be over any other kids and maybe do that to them, too. He can cause a lot of trouble for students like that."
A Facebook group, " Southeast Texans Against grove park inn asheville nc BISD's Taylor Center Principal Thomas Amons ," has sprung up in the wake of the news, and currently has 122 members. "We demand that Principal Amons be removed from his position, that the program be reinstated, that Cequada Clark be returned to her teaching position and that a formal apology be issued to Kwmane Gray from the school district," one of the group's organizers writes. Meanwhile, a Change.org petition grove park inn asheville nc calling for Amons' removal has been launched and currently has about 79 members.
BISD officials defended Amons' decision, releasing a statement to local news channel KIII-TV : "Due to budget restraints and no Beaumont ISD cosmetology graduates registering for the class, the Taylor Career center is no longer offering an extended courtesy evening grove park inn asheville nc cosmetology class for adults. Campbell-Amons stressed that the high school cosmetology program at Taylor still exists. But he said the school can no longer afford to fund the part of the program serving non- BISD cosmetology program graduates."
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how would these people feel if something they wanted to do was closed down because they are straight..I am straight and I know because of what I do in my bedroom should not be anybodies business, so I should be able to go to school, grove park inn asheville nc work or anything else I wanted grove park inn asheville nc to do..
How on earth did this person ever get to head a cosmetology school and not know the make up (no pun intended) of the sudent body? Was this a political appointment? Is he even familiar with beauty salons and make up artists?
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