Please Come Down To The Office, You Have AIDS!

By Rob

Students at a suburban St. Louis high school headed to the gymnasium for HIV testing this week after an infected person told health officials as many as 50 teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS.

Officials refused to give details on who the person was or how the students at Normandy High School might have been exposed, but the district is consulting with national AIDS organizations as it tries to minimize the fallout and prevent the infection from spreading. So to help do that, the school district is saying nothing…to anyone…even those who now might have HIV.

“There’s potential for stigma for all students regardless of whether they’re positive or negative,” Normandy School District spokesman Doug Hochstedler said Thursday. “The board wants to be sure all children are fully educated.” A teacher in a neighboring district singled out a girl who dates someone at Normandy High and instructed her to get tested, Hochstedler said. A competing school’s football team initially balked at playing Normandy’s 8-0 team, and not to be a douche, but why shouldn’t they?

I find it ironic that as civil liberties and privacy laws are being stripped away more frequently than gas prices change, there are some strange ones that have remained. If you have contracted AIDS or HIV, you should know how. If you have been given an almost sure death sentence (despite the Magic Johnson-effect), you damn-well deserve to know.

Jasmine Lane, a 16-year-old sophomore, said her boyfriend from a neighboring high school broke up with her on learning of the news – after she bought them tickets to homecoming. Sophomore Tevin Baldwin said that many of his classmates in this working-class city of about 5,000 residents want to transfer out of the district, which encompasses other towns.

“Nobody knows what’s going on,” he said. The district declined to respond to his assertion.

Normandy Superintendent Stanton Lawrence agreed that students remain focused on learning, despite concerns and distraction. Uh…what a dumb-ass. Of course he reacts this way, HE IS NOT THE ONE WHO MIGHT HAVE AIDS! I have heard some stupid f*cking comments from administrators, but this is a new one. How can I concentrate on school, if I might have an STD that will not only prevent me from having sex (again or EVER) but comes with premature death. Oh yeah! Algebra, here I come!