Parents say students at Arizona school were told to remove MAGA gear, one was suspended...
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The problem is going to be that this school district has not been diligent about policing political speech or potentially offensive messaging on their campus. Guarantee they haven't. So whether they intend it or not the school will have the appearance of favoring certain speech. In essence the school district is screwed on this. In addition they have suspended a student for 10 days. Let that sink in...10 days. In Iowa I think it is illegal for a school district to keep a kid out of school for more than 10 days without a hearing.
Remember this about school districts and administration. Every single significant movement forward on things like free speech or the rights of students including those students that are disabled has been the result of suing their stupid asses.
Remember this about school districts and administration. Every single significant movement forward on things like free speech or the rights of students including those students that are disabled has been the result of suing their stupid asses.
I’d wager this is the reason we such poorly behaved college students. They are never taught that it’s reasonable to have your ideas challenged in high school. You parents are picking safe schools over effective ones. If that’s going to be your choice, I choose to stop paying for your kids.
Or the kids were told to quiet down part way through the day, they chose to not listen, things escalated and the principal chose to put a stop to it. It wouldn't be the first time this week that some high school kids pushed the envelope, massaged the story so they were the victims and their parents helicopter in and swallow the story whole without a thought that their precious could be minimizing the roll they played in the controversy. The only people that actually know the whole story are the administrators and the kids.
Sure. Except for the ten day suspension and the school resource officer taking pictures of the kids in their shirts and hats. For evidence.
The district is truly and justifiably screwed in this.
I like to take an optimistic approach with regards to the MAGA hatters. Think of it as an easy way to identify people that you shouldn't waste your time on and whom should be avoided.
They have made that identification easy and saved you the effort.
They have made that identification easy and saved you the effort.
Do you have a link to the ten day suspension and a quote as to why pictures were taken?
I've read the OP's article and a few others. The most recent article from Fox included this...
"When we reached out to the Chandler Unified School District, the spokesperson confirmed one of the students, Logan James, was suspended, but for a different reason. She told us she does plan to apologize to the school's staff for being defiant."
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.fox1...-students-reprimanded-for-wearing-maga-attire
And another included this...
Arizona’s Family learned that the student will be told of their punishment on Monday and if they will actually be suspended.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.az...ffc2c418-3d74-11e9-9c01-239581f0716c.amp.html
Like I've already said, if they were reprimanded strictly for wearing Trump gear the staff involved should at the very least apologize. But, the story seems to be changing a bit and the OP's article is pretty light on facts and very heavy on opinion. Those opinions, conveniently, all come from the same side of the coin.
The OP clearly stated that she refused to give school administrators her name until her mother got there.
I guess that was the "defiant" part?
I always the thought liberals embraced the idea of civil disobedience to address injustices.
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Maybe...that's sort of the point I'm making...nobody outside I'd the people there knows. It reminds me of the DC/Drum massacre of 2019. There is likely more to this story than meets the eye and context matters. If it is how the girls and there mom say it is, f@ck the faculty that was involved, but it seems just as likely to me that some high school kids were being disruptive and chose a more dramatic path than was ultimately necessary.
Page 1 for Klan comparison.
Page 2 brought the Hitler comparison.
This land is made for you and me.
Page 2 brought the Hitler comparison.
This land is made for you and me.
You are right how dare I support somebody who has a black cabinet member, or pardoned a black lady, or did criminal justice reform that greatly impacts minorities, or is the President when black unemployment is at its lowest point, or appointed an openly gay ambassador, wait I thought he was a racist and a bigot?
I guess if the affected families protest it and it gets to the SC we'll find out....
...and there we go.
Chanting Trumpisms and MAGAisms (or if the clothing incited others to start arguments) certainly fits that bill. And FWIW, the school banned any MAGA-wear for their weekend dance/event.
The students noticed the school's police resource officer taking photos of them and others wearing MAGA gear without their permission, Jones said. When the officer asked her freshman daughter, Logan, for her name, the girl refused to answer, questioning why he needed her name.
"I thought the whole situation was weird. They're out of school, so why are you coming up to her?" Jones said.
When the girl refused, the officer said she had been a part of a disruption all day, that no one was allowed to have a Trump flag, Jones said. She said he told her daughter to go to the office.
There, administrators asked her what her name was again. She responded that she wasn't going to answer any questions until her mother arrived, Jones said.
When Jones got to the school 10 minutes later, she found that the administration had suspended her daughter for 10 days.
The kid isn't in trouble with the law, she's in trouble with her school. Vastly different standards of behavior. Also, as posted above a local paper learned yesterday that said student may not even be suspended and will have to wait until tomorrow to find out if she walks the plank or not.
Sure. What do you think a school resource.officer is in most.schools? Schools have also been notorious for questioning kids without their parents present and then turning whatever they get over to the police. She is very smart to wait for an adult that has her interests at heart to show up.
That's probably reasonable, but you're just drifting further and further from the point.
Imagine you're a kid who's dad lost their cancer doctor because of the ACA and someone was wearing a "Hope" shirt. Same exact thing, right? Obama shirts are equally as bad...correct? I mean...if you want to go racist we can point to 20 years listening to Reverend Wright too.
But yeah...I think Obama shirts should be allowed too. Crazy you don't.
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Yup...very true. Much like supporting a party in favor of killing live babies laying on the delivery table. I mean..you're not the actual murderer, If supporting the party who has these people as leaders? Wow. You're just supporting the murder of viable babies basically. But that's Democrats. You don't need to worry about that.
You need help. I could refer you to some mental health professionals in your community.
