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Ladue Bullying

Friday, February 8, 2013

Ladue School District Mom Takes Fight Against Bullies to State Capitol

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…

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State Rep. Sue Allen to Push Stricter Bullying Legislation, Again, Ladue High 'Senior List' Prompts Civil Rights Complaint from Mom, Ladue High's Obscene 'Senior List' Has Been Around at Least 10 Years, and 6 more ›

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

'Ladue Senior List' Civil Rights Investigation Moves Forward

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 …

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Ladue High 'Senior List' Prompts Civil Rights Complaint from Mom and Ladue School Administrators Investigate Instagram Bullying

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