Athletic Director Gregory Power needs to lose his job.
Suspended. A fascist action. HE needs to be fired. For good.
The only line Gregory Power should get is the unemployment line.
This is not good.
Sue
Suspended by a bunch of Commies.
Rule one. It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
They should never have asked for permission. They should have just done it.
Their suspension, however, is an abomination. They did nothing wrong. Permission should have been eagerly granted.
The school has issued the usual BS CYA excuse:
“Little Miami Local Schools is saddened to see this story take such a negative turn. While we understand these students’ desire show their support of our first responders, they did not obtain permission from district officials. Administrators must act when students break the rules.
“The Patriot Night program to memorialize the victims of 9/11 was already part of our pre-game ceremonies on Friday and the American flag is the first thing through the tunnel every Friday night. Little Miami enjoys an outstanding relationship with local first police and fire agencies and a Little Miami school resource officer is also a high school football coach.
“Little Miami always has – and always will – support our first responders, our veterans, and all who sacrifice to maintain our freedoms.”
The students did ask for permission. Notably missing from the above statement is the statement of a reason why permission was denied. Anyone want to be that the “Patriot Night program” was something small, crappy and over in ten seconds?
I lost 3 friends in the towers. Our parish buried 28 people. I watched it closely. Spoke with my cousin, an FDNY firefighter like our grandfather. I know people who ran away from the towers and men who ran towards the towers. They are not in the same group. The ones who ran away were not necessarily not courageous. Many had priorities, responsibilities. But the ones who ran towards the towers were necessarily all courageous
To get suspended for honoring them, whoever is trying to ruin virtue like that for kids... parents better fix this. Now.
Perhaps they need to hear the disapproval over the phone. Be a shame if their incoming voice lines melted down.
Little Miami Local Schools Contact List - including all their board members, state board of ed and all the elected officials in their area: https://www.littlemiamischools.com/media/aboutus/Resources_GovernmentalContacts.pdf
Nice of them to provide all that info in one convenient PDF. Have at them.
They were told not to. They did it anyway. I guess you reap what you sow.
They were suspended for directly disobeying the schools directive after they had been warned what would happen.
If only they had a black friend with a BLM flag, and all three of them ran out at the same time.
are they suspending students that ‘support blm’?
They said they didn’t want the students to do this because it would be ‘Divisive”??
Divisive to who? Those that hate our country? Who the hell cares whether scum who hate our country and laws are offended or not?
This was honoring good and decent people who gave their lives to save other people’s lives- the lives of ALL races
And it’s ‘offensive and divisive’ to honor them? What the hell is wrong with that school?
“The boys are now suspended from their team after not heeding a warning to leave the Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags that represent fallen firefighters and police officers off the field.”
If you wish to be a patriot, you should be prepared to accept the consequences of the act. They were warned.
““Were you trying to make some kind of a political statement here?” Local 12 asked Brady Williams, a senior cornerback.
“No,” he answered quickly. “Not at all. I was just doing it to honor the people that lost their lives 19 years ago.“” Yet later in the interview: “Listen,” Williams said. “I don’t care what my consequences are. Ss long as my message gets across, I’ll be happy.”
He made a choice, he’s happy. One that was in defiance of the decision of the organization he was representing. If an employee of a company does something intentionally after it is established the company doesn’t want it done, and warned consequence would follow, then they would be punished, possible terminated. If the two kids had asked to try for an alternate way to accomplish their goal, and turned down, then a discussion could follow that could appease both sides. This way, there is no room for a discussion. They wanted, they were told no, and they are being punished as previously informed.
Breaking rules intentionally is not the answer. If they had time to ask, they had time to sit down and maybe meet in the middle. But the kids didn’t care by the one’s admittance. And what it represents, has nothing to do with their acts.
They acted in a defiant way by doing something, anything, that was preplanned and unwanted, at least, in the way they wished to do it. They broke the rules. Our country is based on rules, and sometimes laws. And allowing children to break them openly after they were told no, is the kids act, not the school’s. Blame the kids. They knowingly created the problem.
rwood
Sadly we’ve become a litigious nation. Threat of a lawsuit from an attorney is the only way these school clowns will back down.
This is just a taste of a Harris/Biden administration....these idiots are already falling in line and should be replaced........and these boys should sue the hell out of the school district!!!! (and yes I meant to put Tamale’s name first)........;)
Just when you think that people could not get more stupid.....they prove that they can......SAD
Ms. Grice,
Below is the text of an email I sent to Mr. Power, the school superintendent, earlier today. From the letter you had posted on FaceBook, it appears that you, also, are somewhat unfamiliar with the concept of First Amendment rights, and their application by students at school. This country, from it's inception, has had a problem with living up to our ideas. These young men were living up to those ideas. That is a positive good. Your prior restraint of their speech is not a positive good. Our children need to understand that we have not always lived up to our ideas, but that the ideas are good. Trying to silence them, and then punishing them for not staying silenced is another failure in that history. YOU need to help teach them to live up to the ideas, and not to allow any infringement on freedom of speech. Unless there was a riot in your small town that I'm not aware of, I do not see their actions as objectionable.
The text of my email to Mr. Power follows:
Mr. Power, I would like to bring something to your attention related to this headline. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/393/503.html I was still in junior high school what that decision was made by the US Supreme Court. I spent 24 years in the USAF trying to defend our country from folks outside the country that would have imposed such things on our people. I have been retired from the USAF for nearly 24 more years, and in that time, I took teacher training, and was again reacquainted with the ruling I cited above. Quite frankly, there is no excuse for your actions. You should know better, and your legal council should have advised you better. I suggest you reverse this decision, apologize to the students and their families, and hold remedial training for yourself and your entire staff so this doesn't ever happen again in your district. If I've not heard that has happened within a reasonable time, I'll be suggesting to the families that they file suit against you and your district for violation of their civil rights.
You have started the process I suggested, and I'd like to see it completed. If your district punishes those young men for standing up for what they believe, and exercising their First Amendment rights, you are missing the point entirely. If that is the case, a lawsuit against the district and its administration would be fully justified.