Mononucleosis: A Disease Of The Equine

By Sam Bakken in News on May 10, 2005 6:03PM

Because a teacher allegedly attributed her bout with mononucleosis to promiscuity, college freshman Rebecca Alvarado recently filed a $450,000 lawsuit against the dean, the principal and two teachers at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, the school she graduated from last year.

She said the teacher announced that she had the disease and that it was a disease that "whores" get. We think the teacher was probably just misunderstood. He'd probably remembered that they use horse erythrocytes (red blood cells) to test for the disease. He was just a bit mixed up.

But then again maybe not. Mono is the kissing disease. And with today's fluid definition of sex, is he actually so wrong?

We know, we know, we know. It sounds like she had quite a shitty time because of the teacher's mistake.

From the Sun-Times:

Neary led a class discussion about Alvarado, telling them the "number one" group to get mononucleosis was "sexually active girls."

When a student asked if "whores" get that disease, the lawsuit claims that Neary replied, "Yes."

More classes heard the same lecture from Neary, it says, including a discussion about whom Alvarado was friends with and sleeping with.

"Students from several grades were now discussing and gossiping about Rebecca," the lawsuit says, "claiming she was easy, sleeping around, a slut, and were writing in bathroom stalls that she possessed sexually transmitted diseases."

We just wonder why she waited until almost a year after the fact to file suit.