Crisis Situation

High School Cross-Dresser Suspended

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/fortworth/vitindex.html

http://www.nbc5i.com/news/13209504/detail.html?rss=dfw&psp=news

The story of a 15-year-old, Rodney "Rochelle" Evan, sent home for cross-dressing was covered by both NBC 5 and the Dallas Morning News. The news provided information on what the situation was and gave quotes to support their findings. Eastern Hills High School gave the response of school discipline being confidential and could therefore not discuss the case with the media. The top school district official did use some similar words such as, clothing and discipline, to state that the students were disciplined for disrupting class but did not use words such as, suspension and discrimination, to describe the disciplinary actions that were taken. The two news stories were given by both Evan and his mother while the response was given by an anonymous top school district official. The two stories are in disagreement with Rodney Evan and his mother alerting the media of the schools discrimination and the school district denying the allegation in response with it being simply school discipline.

The tone of the response was professionally angry. They did not say more than two sentences to the media and did not write a separate response article to post on the school website. The school district made one statement and left it as that is all they will say on the matter. They do not provide much new information only that "students" were disciplined for disrupting class and not because he was a cross-dresser. The school did not fill in the gaps by answering any of the possible media questions and the media is still left wondering what will happen the next time Rodney "Rochelle" Evan decides to wear women clothing to school.