The 13-year-old Montgomery stuÂdent expected to be bullied for being gay, but didn't expect his teacher to encourage it. He said that when a teacher ridiÂculed him in class, telling him to "quit acting like a girl and start actÂing like a boy," he was too stunned to react. When the local junior high school student talked to his mother about it, she hired an attorney who wrote a letter of complaint to the Montgomery school district. The district's staff attorney reÂsponded in a letter that the teacher's comment had been misrepresented and taking out of context and was not meant to be offensive. "We wanted a written apology to my son and myself and we never got it," said La'Daytra Walker, mother of the boy. "We received the stateÂment from the staff attorney at the school, but they didn't apologize.