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High school year books confiscated due to senior’s ‘Build That Wall’ quote
The College Fix ^ | May 12, 2017 | by DAVE HUBER

Posted on 05/12/2017 9:25:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A high school in North Carolina has collected all of the yearbooks that were distributed to students due to some “inappropriate” comments, including President Trump’s (in)famous phrase “Build That Wall.”

The News & Observer reports the Trump quote made by a Richmond Early College High School senior was “slammed on social media by some students and others who called it racist and hurtful to classmates.”

Thankfully for the school, only a smattering of the books had been given out before the “offensive” statements were noticed by Principal Tonya Waddell.

The district did not provide any other examples of what was deemed improper, but noted no students were disciplined.

Comments on both the News & Observer piece and school district Facebook post run the gamut from claiming the school’s actions violate the First Amendment, to the school has every right to do as it wishes regarding the yearbook.

Perhaps there was something “worse” than “Build That Wall” in the book; if not, it seems the school would be on dubious constitutional grounds. Immigration is legitimate political topic, and construction of a border wall is a legitimate, albeit partial, solution to the illegal immigration problem.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; buildthewall; globalists; illegalaliens; leftismoncampus; snowflakes
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To: outpostinmass2

Government schools are Marxist bastions in every state.


21 posted on 05/12/2017 9:43:44 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWtiEsIx4Xk


22 posted on 05/12/2017 9:43:51 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who gets to pay for the destruction of these, and the ordering of the new, corrected ones?


23 posted on 05/12/2017 9:44:37 AM PDT by dfwright (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left (Eccl. 10:2, NIV))
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To: thorvaldr

Good fences make good neighbors.
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That is my mantra when I place the divider on the belt at the grocery checkout counter.


24 posted on 05/12/2017 9:50:57 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: dfwright

They might just mark out the offense, or cut out and paste in a new page.

After we graduated, we got an addendum set of pages covering the graduation event. Yearbooks had been issued in early spring.


25 posted on 05/12/2017 9:53:13 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: outpostinmass2

Poor North Carolina. It used to be a nice conservative state - except for the area around the Research Triangle.

Now the state is overrun with disgruntled northerners trying to escape the crime and high taxes brought on by the liberal politicians they voted for.

Where will they go once they turn the Carolinas into the liberal mess they’re trying to escape?


26 posted on 05/12/2017 9:53:31 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: GOPJ

The President of the United States comments censored by some stupid liberal totalitarian ‘teachers’
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That’s pretty good. Trump’s quotes already censored as evil.

It took over 60 years for Churchill’s mooslime comments to be censored.


27 posted on 05/12/2017 9:56:28 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: goodnesswins
Idiot anti Americans in charge of that school public education.
28 posted on 05/12/2017 9:57:44 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: DoughtyOne

They would probably hold your diploma hostage.


29 posted on 05/12/2017 9:58:01 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: goodnesswins

Pretty much what you expected . . .

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonya-hill-waddell-73485a64/


30 posted on 05/12/2017 10:01:03 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Red Badger

LOL I was just telling my husband the other day that I see more Farenheit 451 than 1984, in our country lately. Of course, more are familiar with 1984.


31 posted on 05/12/2017 10:02:43 AM PDT by ozaukeemom (I am deplorable and proud of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many are in a, ‘smattering?’ ;)


32 posted on 05/12/2017 10:04:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sue this “skool” into the stone age for denying Constitutional rights. They gotta a lot of nerve.


33 posted on 05/12/2017 10:05:40 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

who called it racist and hurtful to classmates.”
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It is not racist and is only hurtful to illegal aliens.


34 posted on 05/12/2017 10:09:11 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“From my cold dead hands.”


35 posted on 05/12/2017 10:10:08 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fahrenheit 451


36 posted on 05/12/2017 10:14:34 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

High time that these little Baldur von Shirach’s were prosecuted for civil rights violations.


37 posted on 05/12/2017 10:17:46 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: taxcontrol

Yep, freedom of speech is under attack more than at any time in recent American history and again, by the radical, violent left.


38 posted on 05/12/2017 10:30:04 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: thorvaldr

THAT would have been a great quote to use instead. Let the school censor Robert Frost.


39 posted on 05/12/2017 10:33:43 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I remember a story last year that one picture in a yearbook included one guy on a football team picture with his penis exposed. WHen it was found, they charged him with a sex crime because the yearbook was distributed to minors.


40 posted on 05/12/2017 10:35:08 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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