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Texas superintendent vows to suspend students who walk out to protest guns
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:38 am
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:38 am
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A school superintendent near Houston said his district plans to suspend any student who takes part in classroom walkouts as a form of protest over gun violence after last week's school massacre in Florida.
"Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness," Superintendent Curtis Rhodes, of Needville, Texas, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post, threatening a three-day suspension. "Life is all about choices and every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative. We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved."
Rhodes went on to say that students participating in “political protest” would be subject to a three-day suspension and that “parent notes will not alleviate the discipline.”
“A school is a place to learn and grow educationally, emotionally and morally. A disruption of the school will not be tolerated,” he said. “Respect yourself, your fellow students and the Needville Independent School District and please understand that we are here for an education and not a political protest.”
High school students across the country have been walking out of classes in an effort to stand in solidarity with survivors of last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a former student allegedly shot and killed 17 students and teachers.
Walkouts have been reported in various states, including Florida, Colorado, Minnesota and Illinois, where some school administrators said they were instructed to allow students to walk out peacefully, while others, like those in the eastern Texas city of Needville, said they had a zero tolerance policy toward such demonstrations.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:39 am to trom83
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Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness," Superintendent Curtis Rhodes, of Needville, Texas, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post, threatening a three-day suspension. "Life is all about choices and every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative. We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved."
Is this a public school? That's some dangerous language if it's funded by the government...
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:39 am to trom83
finally, someone uses common sense.
Thank you Texas.
Thank you Texas.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:40 am to trom83
Guy has a high five waiting for him if he ever comes to columbus
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:41 am to trom83
These little buttholes are walking out of school to get a day off of school... Not to stand in solidarity.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:41 am to trom83
Lmao kids are just doing this to get out of class
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:41 am to trom83
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"Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness," Superintendent Curtis Rhodes, of Needville, Texas, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post, threatening a three-day suspension. "Life is all about choices and every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative. We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved."
It's the first part I find problematic.
"We will not accept any classroom disruptions and all school rules will be followed. Class walkouts, etc. will be punished in accordance with standard rules" is legit IMO. But this seems too much like an emotional reaction by the ISD.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:43 am to trom83
Good they should be suspended. If they don't get suspended for this then it opens up the doors for countless more meaningless protests.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:43 am to trom83
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Superintendent Curtis Rhodes, of Needville, Texas, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post
I bet it was deleted once they calculated how much money they'd lose by not having 500+ students for 3 days.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:44 am to trom83
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Texas superintendent vows to suspend students who walk out to protest guns
From reading the article, it sounds like you can take the "guns" off the end of the thread title......
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:46 am to trom83
Eh, that's fine, and also if it is something that the students believe strongly enough in then I think it's respectable for them to take on that cost to express themselves.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 11:55 am to trom83
I'd have a protest every Friday starting at lunch time.
Get a good start to the week
Get a good start to the week
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:05 pm to trom83
Had the idiot Superintendent simply got involved with the students, he and his entire staff could have facilitated and participated in the protest with the kids. A simple change of narrative - to ensure it's about school safety and not guns - would have led headlines all over the nation, who would applaud him. But leave it to simple-minded authority figures who puff their chests out and miss the forest for the trees...
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:10 pm to trom83
They actually should be in school during school hours. After all, it is school.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:10 pm to trom83
Are they protesting guns or just the violence?
Second, while walking out is inherently peaceful speech, it is nonetheless disruptive, and such speech can be curtailed. Wearing black armbands, as a different example, does not disrupt class and is totally acceptable.
Second, while walking out is inherently peaceful speech, it is nonetheless disruptive, and such speech can be curtailed. Wearing black armbands, as a different example, does not disrupt class and is totally acceptable.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:17 pm to trom83
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where a former student allegedly shot and killed 17 students and teachers.
On a tangent, does this bother anyone else. The people were shot and killed. It's a fact. There's no allegedly about it. Don't think there's any liability danger in saying that something that clearly happened actually happened.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:21 pm to trom83
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A disruption of the school will not be tolerated,” he said.
Unless, you know, a kid shoots up 17 students. Then it's business as usual.
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:35 pm to trom83
If there was ever a way to guarantee a protest, this is how you do it
Posted on 2/22/18 at 12:38 pm to trom83
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“A school is a place to learn and grow educationally, emotionally and morally. A disruption of the school will not be tolerated
Just don't apply what you learned at school to the school!
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The right to protest is a long-standing protection afforded by the U.S. and Texas constitutions. This right is contained both in the freedom of speech and in the freedom to assemble, which protect not only the ability to verbalize protests and engage in symbolic speech such as wearing an armband, but to arrange peaceful marches and protests on certain public lands.
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The right to protest is protected by both the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution.
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
The Texas Constitution, in Article I, sections 8 and 27 protects the “liberty to speak, write or publish … opinions on any subject,” and “the right … to assemble.
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