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Student Slam List: Will it Take a Lawsuit for Ladue to Wake Up re Bullying?

September 17th, 2012. By AbiK

A recent report sheds light on a slam list that allegedly targets several girls at the end of their junior year at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, MO; the list apparently includes info about hygiene habits and other vulgarities about the girls. Most folks would use one word to describe such behavior: bullying; the parents of the girls being targeted probably have another word in mind: outrage.

One mother—the mother of a boy, btw—does consider it an outrage and she isn’t taking too kindly to the annually produced list. Ruth Alhemeier took her concerns to the Ladue high school principal, Bridget Hermann. The response? In essence, that the list’s been coming out for years and that not much can be done about it…that the school cannot “control the behavior of every single individual student”. (Guess she hasn’t heard of that thing called “zero-tolerance policy” that states like NJ have—?)

True, the Ladue school certainly does not create or distribute the list—the list is created anonymously and distributed “secretly”—but the school environment is clearly ground zero it and it appears the school administration is well aware of it.

So far there doesn’t seem to be any formal, public action taken—and Alhemeier’s keeping her eye on things. She’s ready to to file a federal civil rights complaint under Title IX if need be.

Take a look at the video clip below—is the school system doing enough? Can it do more? Should it do more? You be the judge.

Tags: Bullying, Discrimination, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Ladue MO, Ruth Alhemeier, Zero Tolerance
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