The news in Ohio is that a student was suspended for staying in class during the March 14th national student walkout.
He just wanted to be apolitical, not supporting gun control but not wanting to appear to not care about the Parkland victims.
For his desire not to be a pawn of the Left, he was punished by his school.
If it were really a natural, grassroots uprising, conformity wouldn’t needs to be forced.
Violating a student’s First Amendment rights to make them fight our Second Amendment rights sounds like the worst form of authoritarianism.
We’ll have to wait and see how many cases like this happened across the country.
Hitler Youth, Youth Brigade etc, this is where they are headed
If you don’t join the progtard mind-think they will find a way to punish you. Only way to confront this b.s. is to fight fire with fire.
Progtards love to litigate for the more idiotic and minuscule things, so we might as well return the favor.
https://anjrpc.site-ym.com/general/custom.asp?page=ANJRPCWinsReLacey
“March 18 – the Lacey Township School District has quietly capitulated to ANJRPC’s demand in a cease and desist letter last week that it rescind a blatantly unconstitutional written policy allowing disciplinary action against students”reported to be in possession of a weapon of any type for any reason or purpose WHETHER ON OR OFF SCHOOL GROUNDS during the academic year.” “
Actually, he was suspended for not reporting to a study hall room that he was instructed to go to during the walk out. The school is responsible for the safety of students and wanted the ones who chose not to participate to be situated in one room.
But, hey. Whatever fits your narrative.
Chad: He was suspended for “failing to follow instructions”.
What, exactly, were those instructions? It could make a world of difference.
It was made clear that the study hall kids were “anti Parkland.” It was an attempt at public shaming. He didn’t want to be seen as “anti Parkland” or anti gun.
The school should be be subjecting kids to social bullying.
On one hand, I can see the school’s point: students shouldn’t be left unsupervised.
On the other hand, he was suspended for “failing to follow instructions after being warned repeatedly”. What were those instructions, and were they demanding he relinquish his First Amendment rights to NOT associate with a group he doesn’t agree with?
This will be a key bit of information in the lawsuit I sense is pending. Government (which includes schools) is prohibited from advocating for or supporting any particular point of view. Disciplining a student for not participating in a “voluntary” student demonstration shows clear support for the topic of the demonstration, to the point that disagreement must be punished. If next week, pro-2A students decided to stage their own walk-out demonstration, which is more likely? That all students again be required to either attend or go to a study hall, or that all those participating receive suspensions?
What if a walk-out were staged supporting or condemning “Palestinian statehood”? Or abortion? Or advocating against teachers’ unions?
(Plus, if any “walk-outs” went off-campus, that requires parental permission slips to be signed. For safety, liability, and to comply with relevant laws. How many schools got those signatures?)
Were the students who walked out supervised? If yes, then that makes it an official school activity, i.e., government employees engaged in political action. If no, then it means those students should also be suspended for failing to be in a place where the school can supervise them.
Sorry Chad, I don’t expect that excuse to hold water.
If his teacher had remained at his or her assigned palce of duty, THE CLASSROOM, he would have been supervised. Where was the teacher?
As stated above, the walkouts were NOT a memorial to the Parkland Students and Staff that died due to governmental incompetence that ignored and even enabled an insane nutjob. The walkouts were school supported, and administration sanctioned partisan political activity. Except in at least one Arkansas school, where the walkout students were given the option of an in-school suspension, or a paddling; with three students choosing the paddle.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/378880-arkansas-students-punished-with-paddling-for-walking-out
Two swats on the bum? Sounds like the principal actually respected their authentic student led memorial. In my school and my age, it was ten for cutting class.
The student was suspended for failing to go to study hall.
So his teacher walked out of the classroom and failed to perform their duty as an instructor and instead decided to participate in political bit of theater. As this particular student sat in the classroom where they should have been and demanded instruction.
For the unacceptable thought crime of wanting to stay in class and be instructed by his teacher, he was told to go to the shaming hall.
Maybe we should be asking why the teacher wasn’t suspended without pay for walking out of their classroom?
Hopefully his lawyer and a few state legislators will be asking those questions.
Snopes breaks it down here.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/student-suspended-staying-in-class/
As is usually the case, you don’t get the full story by only going to one source, especially a source like Fox that is pushing a narrative.
You guys can analyze this to death but the facts are that the kid didn’t go where he was told to go if he wanted to sit out the walk out and he got suspended. Harsh, maybe. But the suspension isn’t being driven by some political agenda on the part of the school.
In school suspension for the day or participate in our political campain/march, I wouldent have shown up either.
Seriously, you used snopes….?
“But the suspension isn’t being driven by some political agenda on the part of the school.”
You can’t prove that. Especially in light of the fact that he is being punished for being in the one place he was supposed to be–in the classroom.