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Posted on 05/03/2025 3:51:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
She wasn’t disciplined, the school’s attorney insists. The school’s emails show otherwise.
A Vermont superintendent and an attorney for a public school that prohibited a young student from wearing a shirt that states “There are only 2 genders” now claim the school did not discipline her, and that it has consistently “[done its] very best to protect free speech in schools.” These officials are using local media to gaslight the Vermont public and the school community. The school’s own emails reveal what actually occurred.
Peoples Academy Middle Level school in Morristown, Vermont, repeatedly disciplined thirteen-year-old student “M.P.” for wearing a school-prohibited T-shirt. Only when she retained legal counsel did school officials relent (though even then, she was initially threatened with discipline by a teacher). Thomas More Society special counsel Adam Hochschild alleged in a letter to school officials that M.P. had been removed from class, reprimanded, punished with in-school suspension, and admonished that her prohibited shirt was “hate speech.”
After the school conceded that M.P. would henceforth be permitted to wear the shirt and that her free speech rights would be respected, the matter should have ended. However, Vermont school superintendent Ryan Heraty and legal counsel Pietro Lynn then claimed in an interview with a local newspaper that the school had never disciplined M.P. and always strove to act impartially. This is classic gaslighting, in this case dismissing the young girl’s complaints as if the school, not she, was the victim.
The article in the Vermont Community Newspaper Group’s News & Citizen references the letter from Thomas More Society and states, “The student was never disciplined, according to Lynn and Heraty.” Lynn is further quoted as saying, “Schools generally do their very best to protect free speech in schools[.]”
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They will still find subtle ways to punish this student. You can bet there will be bad grades and imaginative enforcement of rules.
The entire North East, most of the East coast and all of the West coast are liberal shxtholes with a small fraction of actual sane, common sense people.
Sue. Not just the schools, but the administrators on a personal basis.
“Thomas More Society special counsel Adam Hochschild”
They certainly complained to the right group!
Libel?
Anything and everything is hated by someone. Therefore anything and everything can be considered hate speech by someone.
Yet only a select few are entitled to claim
Offended by hate speech.
The student was being honest??? - WE CAN’T HAVE THAT IN THE SCHOOLS!! ..../sarc
I’m referring to the school officials publicly claiming that the girl had protested without having been disciplined at all.
Leftists first instinct is to lie.
That is also their second instinct and third instinct and fourth instinct!
“[done its] very best to protect free speech in schools.”... by denying some their free speech rights
What would you expect from a state that has elected a Communist to represent them in Congre$$ since 2007?
Sh3 should sue the school for THEIR hate speech against her beleifs! They are saying that she doesn’t have a right to beleive the science!
The Northeast is getting quite the wave of public attention lately. Not the good kind of public attention.
Pencil whipping is real.
Gaslight? Isn’t that a movie with Ingrid Bergman playing the femme fatale? Do we have entire communities full of femme fatales now or what? If this is true, I’ll be sure to never visit them.
So grammar is “hate speech”?
Almost everything north of NC is a lib hole. And I’m starting to have my doubts about NC.
Yet if a student wore a T-shirt that said “There are 51 genders” - he/she would be lauded and praised.
Along with the Midwest and the southwest.
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