The Ladue List: Senior Girls Were Not the Only Target

Sometimes younger girls write it about the elder class or vice versa. Some years the girls write nasty things about the boys. And, according to one teacher who Dielmann says has been with the district for 30 years, the list used to be all about insulting teachers, though she couldn't say if those lists were as sexual in nature as the 2012 list. Dielmann also disputes this being a "30 year long" tradition.

"It doesn't happen every year," she says.

Daily RFT also heard more than once that the 2012 girls retaliated in some fashion against the boys who wrote about them, but Dielmann says she doesn't know whether or not that's true.

She concedes that doling out punishment has been difficult. Ahlemeier complained that this is the first year that any of the list's authors have been punished -- Dielmann says to her knowledge that's true. As a way of preventing the list from making another appearance, she says the school already targeted a group of "influential" junior boys to try to persuade them to use their popularity to try to squash a 2013 list.

For now, the district has yet to receive formal notification of Ahlemeier's complaint against it, and Dielmann says once that happens they'll just have to wait and see if the Office for Civil Rights decides to investigate.

"We've followed our policies to the letter," she says. "If anyone can stop this behavior, we're in favor of it. No one wants it to stop more than we do."