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Posted on 04/25/2008 9:04:02 PM PDT by Coleus
Here is the text of my message to the principal:
Sorry Principal Martinez, but Janelle Bushnell has the right to have a silent protest.
Perhaps if she was protesting the war in Iraq you would agree with her First Amendment rights.
Our Constitution protects Ms. Bushnell's right to "speak out", by not speaking.
School officials" have stated that the protest will disrupt the education process because students will not be able to respond when called upon in class. Is this because ALL students will be participating? Or will only "smart students" be participating?
However, thank you for denying her constitutional rights, it has given her more publicity than just her protest would have had you allowed it.
Well that is an interesting twist. Never would have I concluded one of the problem might be taxpayer dollars. Just how does it waste taxpayer dollars?
Is there no system in place at schools to deal with a disruptive student without violating there right to free speech. No one ever said a students free speech should be without consequences. Disrupt the class with your protest and you go to detention (or whatever they do these days).
I wholeheartedly agree. Also, the brave principled kids could cut a slit in the tape where visually their mouths are taped shut but they could speak through the slit.
This brave young girl should accept the “silent lunch” punishment verbally, and then simply sing hymns after eating lunch.
Let’s use the “free exercise thereof” provision of the first amendment with extra vigor for this type of tripe.
We should all be objecting to these leftists in authoritive positions whenever they overstep their bounds. Agreeing with one another over the "kitchen table" accomplishes nothing.
Let's consider firing off emails (that's easy!) or snail mail to these tyrants more often than some of us have bothered to do.
Janelle Bushnell, for one, deserves our support.
ok... i went to this school and i had seen janelle around when i went there. she got lunch detention. that was it. lunch detention is no big deal there. hell, you can talk to whoever you want.
i agree that janelle deserves our support. i would do anything to get tht princelple back. i went to that school so i know how it worksand to be honest i’m really not surprised that he made her stop...
If being able to respond in class is a requirement, then how are students who can’t speak English passing?
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