Tuesday, April 30, 2013
After a flag regarding the offensive list circulated at Ladue High, the school district pledged to take steps to address sexual harassment in its agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
A few months after an angry parent filed a complaint with the federal government over the so-called "senior list" — an offensive student-produced list targeting Ladue High girls — the Ladue School District has pledged to take steps to stop the practice. That pledge comes in the form of an agreement between the district and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civl Rights, which became involved in the flap after Ruth Ahlemeier, whose children attended Ladue Horton Watkins High School, filed the complaint. In the agreement, district officials said the steps ranged from counseling offended students to creating a student committee to air concerns about sexual harassment issues. The civil rights office summarized the steps outlined by …
Friday, February 22, 2013
House Bill 134 would require school districts to have specifics in their ant-bullying policies.
The winter weather that had St. Louis in prep mode for much of the week also had an impact on state lawmakers in Jefferson City, forcing the General Assembly and the State Senate into an early recess, with no session held Thursday. Among the bills currently in legislative transit is House Bill 134, sponsored by Re. Sue Allen (R-Town and Country), which would change laws regarding bullying in schools and establish specific components that a district must include in its anti-bullying policy, according to information on Missouri House of Representatives website. Ruth Ahlemeier, a Ladue School District parent from Olivette, testified in favor of the bill in a House hearing earlier this month. Ahlemeier has been in the spotlight for going …
Friday, February 8, 2013
Ruth Ahlemeier, a parent who filed a civil rights complaint about the "Senior List" at a Ladue High School, testified during a Missouri House of Representatives committee hearing in favor of an anti-bullying bill.
A local woman who launched a crusade against the so-called “Ladue Senior List” at Horton Watkins High School has taken her fight to the Missouri Capitol. Ruth Ahlemeier, a Ladue School District parent from Olivette, testified Wednesday in Jefferson City during a public hearing by the Elementary and Secondary Education Committee of the Missouri House of Representatives on HB 134. The bill is sponsored by State Representative Sue Allen, R-Town and Country, and would change the laws regarding bullying in schools and establish specific components that a district must include in its anti-bullying policy, according to information on Missouri House of Representatives website. This is the third year Allen has introduced such a bill. In Ahlemeier’s…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Federal investigators have a list of district staff they want to interview as part of their probe.
A Ladue school spokeswoman confirms that the district has received a list of names federal civil rights investigators want to interview in connection with a probe into bullying problems at Horton Watkins High School. Ruth Ahlemeier, a district parent from Olivette, filed a complaint last fall after she felt her concerns with the so-called 'Ladue Senior List', a crude tradition which over the years has targeted students' perceived sexual and personal habits for ridicule. Ahlemeier said she had not had contact with the Office Of Civil Rights since receiving a letter in October notifying her that the agency would investigate her complaint. Susan Dielmann, a school district spokeswoman, confirmed that it had received a list of the people …
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
A parent filed the complaint in September over the annual obscene "senior list" circulated by students at Ladue High.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has agreed to investigate a complaint filed over the annual "senior list" circulated at Ladue Horton Watkins High School. The list, circulated near graduation time by students for at least 10 years, names a handful of girls each year and describes them with crude, vulgar and sometimes obscene references to students' body parts, sexual habits and hygiene. A Ladue High parent, Ruth Ahlemeier, complained to the Ladue School District about the list, after hearing that it was an annual tradition among students, and after her daughter appeared on the list that was circulated on May 11. Ahlemeier, chief executive for OEM Logistics in Olivette, filed the complaint with the Office for Civil…
Friday, September 21, 2012
Ruth Ahlemeier, the Ladue High mom who exposed the school's slam-list tradition, also shared the story on the Riverfront Times.
The mother of a Ladue Horton Watkins High student who sparked a controversy by revealing the 10-year "ugly tradition" of a senior "slam" list, has filed a civil rights complaint against the school. Ruth Ahlemeier, who's daughter graduated from Ladue last year and whose son is a student there now, told Patch.com her story in an article on Sept. 11. The article exposed the tradition of the "Senior List," written and distributed by students annually toward the end of the year. The list names a handful of girls and describes them with crude, vulgar and sometimes obscene references to students' body parts, sexual habits and hygiene. In her complaint, filed Wednesday with the Kansas City Office for Civil Rights, Ahlemeier says: "When a girl …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Ladue administrators say they take bullying seriously, but they cannot combat students who make bad decisions in spite of the consequences.
A vulgar and sometimes obscene "Senior List" that unkindly characterizes the body parts, sexual habits and hygiene of selected girls at Ladue Horton Watkins High School caught administrators by surprise when it was passed around during the lunch period on May 11. It was at least the 10th year that the list had been circulated by students at the high school, according to district administrators, but anti-bullying programs and other efforts had not effectively curbed the practice. "The (Ladue High) principal also stated that in the past the list had been passed around at graduation rehearsal. Therefore, having students pass it out at lunch was entirely unexpected," wrote Ladue School Board President Jayne Langsam in a letter to a Ladue High …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A Ladue School District letter describes it as an "ugly tradition" the school has tried to stop.
The parent of a Ladue Horton Watkins High School student has mounted a campaign against what the school district itself has called an "ugly tradition" — an annual list of graduating senior girls that describes them with vulgarities and obscenities and is circulated throughout the school. A series of letters between parent Ruth Ahlemeier and various officials with the Ladue School District describes Ahlemeier's efforts to have the practice in Ladue High stopped and the district's efforts to investigate her complaints. In one letter, shared with Patch on Monday, the president of the school board, Jayne Langsam, responded to Ahlemeier, recounting a conversation Ahlemeier had with Ladue High's principal: "The principal did say during the …
CreveCoeurDad
10:57 am on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Yes, things like this NEVER happen at MICDS or JBS. Why, everyone there is a perfect lady or gentleman and an unkind word is never said. more ›