GH students take it to the streets

According to the Trib, students "risked an unexcused absense" and protested the video of two girls kissing. Here's my take last week.

There is this odd spot in the middle of the Tribune's coverage:

The girl who organized Monday's event had the words “Love is not a sin” on her T-shirt. What really upset her and other students is their belief that Nelson gave special consideration to the other girl's parents' request because of a shared church connection.
Shannon Wiggs, assistant superintendent for Peninsula School District, said the students are misinformed. She said the district hired an outside investigator to look into the case. The investigator spoke with Nelson, the parents of both girls and the bishop of the local Mormon ward, among others.
“The district through the investigation didn’t find a nexus” between the church and Nelson’s actions, Wiggs said.

A nexus? What does that mean? This got very vague here.

Peter Callaghan also weighed in, and his column yesterday "Videotape your high school kids for fun and profit" was aptly titled. Here's the best dissection of the screwy situtation the Gig Harbor admin has created for itself:

It’s also the situation where the school district asserted that the dean did nothing wrong but that he’ll never do it again. And that this was an isolated incident but that using the cameras to sleuth out similar minor offenses has happened before.
And that the cameras are really to keep the kids, the staff and the school safe from danger, but that they’ve been handy in stopping littering and the epidemic of public displays of affection. And that such displays violate school policy but that only this couple has been affected in such a drastic way. And that the official involved is called the dean of students but says he’s all about doing whatever the parents want.

Keep it up, kids. You're in the right.