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Canadian man gets apology for anti-gay high school yearbook slur – 42 years after it left him devastated
Robin Tomlin finally got his face-to-face apology.
It’s been 42 years since he received his Argyle Secondary School yearbook, opened it to the page with his picture on it, and saw the one word that was printed under his name: ‘Fag.’
Bullied while he was in school, Tomlin was haunted for years by the slur saying that because of the remark printed in the yearbook, ’emotionally, they’ve been beating me with a stick for 42 years.’
On Monday, Tomlin met with the North Vancouver School District and emerged with what he had long sought: an in-person apology. Superintendent John Lewis apologized for the ‘cruel and offensive’ entry and for the ‘prolonged grief’ it caused the former student.
‘They made a very sincere apology,’ Tomlin said at a press conference held minutes he receiving the apology from district officials. ‘It’s a happy day.’
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Dick Johnson says:
Even though ‘it is human nature that every human being is born with bi-sexual tenancies’, this fact is not taught in school because of school boards controlled by the religious church authority.
It the process, many students, male and female, have greatly suffered mental and physical abuse, and undeserved consequences.
Too many ridiculed victims, like Mr. Tomlin, have committed suicide.
We are very happy that Mr. Tomlin has finally received his long overdue public apology from the North Vancouver School District.