O.K. In the WTF File Special Edition is my nomination for Cross River and John Jay High School Principal Richard Leprine. While I can understand the need to protect your rear-end and the potential lawsuits you think may be filed with your school from three honor students using the very clinical word vagina in a mixed audience of underage "children" at a LITERARY EVENT, let us be honest about your motive. To say that you were punishing these three girls for disobeying you is really a scapegoat. What is it about the word you find offensive that you had to instruct these young ladies to mark the word as verboten or hence "consequences?" Was it also omitted from the program of the event so that no recognition was given to Eve Ensler's original work? What kind of message is that? From the sounds of parents calling you screaming censorship, I say you took a toss in dog poo.
I salute Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah Levinson for being both courageous in the face of blatant overstepping of authority and for believing in their hearts that vaginae are worth the trouble.
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