Posted on 05/08/2021 9:24:54 PM PDT by logi_cal869
Andover parents Kristin and Scott are speaking out on behalf of their daughter. She along with two of her friends are freshmen at UMass Amherst. A picture posted on social media of the three friends not wearing masks outside was handed over to the university and that has landed them in serious trouble.
“There was a photo sent to the administration of these girls outside off campus on a Saturday. This is why they lost a whole semester of their schooling,” Kristin said.
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But they 'hired a lawyer'; that'll get 'em. /s
Getting ‘thrown out’ of an institution that totalitarian is normally referred to as an ‘escape’. The only end that needs tying up is refund of the tuition and costs for the semester.
Wonder if this generation will even notice that social media does nothing to enhance their life and causes lots of damage.
If I was a student ID hold a nask-off demonstration.
The school can’t kick everyone out.
I hate to be the guy, but there are serious impediments to them filing suit and being successful. First, it is unconstitutional to sue a state, which in this case, UMASS is a state school. The people involved in this horrific decision are likely covered by qualified immunity, in that any actions they’ve taken were done so, in their official capacity, and it is almost impossible to sue the individuals. The best they can do, is make an unequal under the law claim, but they’ll need to prove they were singled out, and were discriminated against, tough sledding. Things that seem so obviously wrong, when performed by state actors, are shielded by the ever expanding immunities that have been created, since the time of Nixon. Judges and prosecutors are absolutely immune, and police and prison guards, and other state officials have qualified immunity.
The Dems have passed a law, in the house, limiting police immunity, but it has not, and may not pass the senate. I believe it is called the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act”. Regardless, in most states, the state indemnifies the police officers when they’re sued, and defends them, and if for some reason a good lawyer wins against a police officer, the state pays the claim.
One of the girls was valedictorian. That tells me that some jealous student narc’ed on them, just to ruin a little bit of these girls lives. The parents should be refunded most of that $16K tuition.
If that happens within a year or two, these students should chose some other school to finish their education at. This school will throw you under that bus without a moment’s notice. No second chances given once it is discovered that you are imperfect. Let’s not forget, this happened off campus and in their private lives.
off campus outside on a Saturday and they still must wear masks? Oh bow down before the sacred mask!
enquiring minds want to know: did the girls violate Mass state law being outside unmasked? did the girls sign a code of conduct with the university pledging to wear masks everywhere?
They should stop posting every moment of their life on antisocial media. It’s bad enough when someone rats on you, but when you rat on yourself. LOL!
In fact, who with a brain uses their real name online except for their LinkedIn SPAM page and the like?
It’s not like a degree from UMASS Amherst is going to open doors for you, unless you’re a hockey player. UMASS was a running joke, and was the place you’d end up if a good school rejected you. I did 2 years community college, and got into a private engineering school in Mass. Great engineering school, about twice the price of UMASS, but I got out owing 4k. Mass is loaded with good schools (Holy Cross, WPI (my alma mater), MIT, Clark, Harvard etc.)
The Gestapo and the bolsheviks and Maoists are going to kill America if this doesn’t end.
Only if they read it on their iFags............
There is no other reality for them.
Sue them, use the settlement to pay for school elsewhere.
UMass/Amherst became a Red Citadel many decades ago when two Communist Party members, one named Rabinowitz (possibly the son of identified CPUSA member and Party lawyer Victor Rabinowitz), and the other a girl, were elected as the president and for another high-ranking position in the university’s Student Government.
There have also been several Marxist professors there including Robert Cole, the once-husband of Venceremos Brigade leader Johnnetta Cole (Spelman College, Coca-Cola Board of Directors, and sponsor of many CPUSA fronts. She was also listed as an Advisory Board member of the journal “Rethinking Marxism” Summer 1990, Vol. 3, No. 2 issue (along with Peter Buttigieg’s father Joseph, a Marxist and expert o n Communist International strategist Antonio Gramsci. Oh, Princeton and Union Theological Seminary professor and DSA leader Cornel West, was also on the Board.
In case you haven’t noticed, Reds of a feather flock together.
Just and off-the-cuff mini-history lesson on American Communism. Hope you enjoyed it.
I live in a college town in Illinois. I haven't heard any of students being suspended for mask violations, but a couple have been suspended for failure to do bi-weekly Covid testing.
I attended an aviation gathering today in Palmer, Alaska. Virtually no one was wearing a mask. That’s the difference between a free state and a tyrannical oppressed state.
Massholes will be massholes, yeah? /s
Yep. At a Florida bar tonight. Packed. No masks. Met a couple from Minnesota that literally closed a Florida home today.
Closed ON a florida home
Being kicked out of the entire STATE of Massachusetts would be a BLESSING to these college students if these brainwashed young “comrades” had a clue.
People living in these communist states are victims of non-stop abuse and don’t even know better.
Supposedly, those enrolled in colleges in Mass. are “learning.” One thing they are NOT learning is the long history of complete failure of Soviet-style societies.
It is simply amazing the amount of abuse and deprivation of liberty these young people will endure to try and fit into a totalitarian strait jacket. These young people are being taught nothing is more important than obeying the state even if the state is run by raving lunatics.
The old saying is: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
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