A high school student in Dallas, Georgia who was suspended for tweeting a photo of her school’s crowded hallway amid COVID-19 announced on Friday that the suspension had been cancelled.
Good because I didn’t think that was right at all. Suspend a kid for telling the truth basically - what kind of message does that send?
Shades of Trumpism…
Punish the messenger or the truth teller
Reward the wrongdoer or the liars and criminals…esp. Trump’s BFFs!
NOT a good way to teach students to do the right thing!
On the PR front, the school looked really bad for this suspension. Glad they reversed course. Sunlight will do that.
I wonder if the student’s parent is a lawyer…
Well, sure. So much more of a punishment to make the poor kid attend a school with hundreds of unmasked students congregating in crowded hallways.
So now she’s at risk again. Good luck to her.
“using it without context to criticize our school reopening efforts.”
Seems to be plenty of context to me
Well, it’s good for the student to learn that she is limiting her career options by telling the truth. She wouldn’t last long at all in the Trump White House, for example.
The student admitted to violating the policy on recording other students without permission but said she was unaware of the rule at the time.
Yes. Because I’m certain their primary concern is in protecting the identities of other students. So important that they apparently failed to notify their students of the policy’s existence.
I wonder how that school does on measuring the length of girl’s skirts or sending them home for wearing spaghetti strap tops…you’d figure if they can do all the dress code management for girls, as well as for non-white students, they can make them wear masks. Pretty simple really.
This picture is why there will soon be a lot of sick kids in America, and trying to cover it up is a shameful abuse of power by the school district. It is a cover up too, unfortunately not with masks.
Scary, all those kids without masks, crowded in the halls. If they were to stay home and read good books, they’d learn more, anyway.
She did the right thing posting the image. The school authorities did the wrong thing suspending her for being truthful and looking out for her fellow students. I hope she sticks to her values.
How many kids must be sacrificed to trump’s ego?
As many as are, I suppose. Since none is the better option.
But an excellent way to teach them to do “The Right’s thing”…
For decades, we’ve listened to rightwingers and their elected GOP enablers demonize public schools and syphon off government funds for homeschooling tax-credits and online, for-profit charter scams.
And now – suddenly and miraculously – the entire Trump choir is singing the praises of brick-and-mortar schools, and forcing all children everywhere into the COVID petri dish, and how horribly, horribly unhealthy it is for any child to be denied the benefits of a crowded school experience.
“Pro-Life”, my tuchus!
Shameless, partisan hypocrites, the lot.
THIS! x 1000!!
They’ve blown-up their pro-life credibility utterly. The first time one of them (Dan Patrick) said that the economy is more important than life. And that’s what going back to school is about - the economy. It’s not about education.
And yes they have shamelessly done everything they can to destroy public education. It’s another one of those things like the post office - they just cannot stand things that aren’t for profit except their churches.
Yah - we’re screwed. And I say that as a concerned elementary school parent in a seemingly far more responsible district in the northeast.
Oh, tena. You do know how to get those licks in! Wearing some of your old pointy-toed shoes?