Posted on 10/10/2021 6:25:37 PM PDT by lightman
A 16-year-old Wyoming high school student was arrested for refusing to wear a mask, resulting in an hour-long school lockdown.
Grace Smith, a Laramie High School student, said in an interview with Wyoming Sen. Anthony Bouchard about her arrest that she had received three separate two-day suspensions. She was also allegedly fined $1,000 for trespassing after she refused to leave the school's premises.
"It makes me angry," Smith said. "It makes me feel unwanted by the school system. It makes me stressed out that I have to fight this battle as a 16-year-old. Right now, I should be playing sports and having fun. And instead, I’m fighting for the rights that were supposed to be won hundreds of years ago."
Bouchard applauded Smith for "standing against Covid Tyranny" and set up a fundraiser on GiveSendGo to help her with "the legal cost of defending her civil liberties and the civil liberties of other students in Wyoming who are enduring the same unlawful treatment." The campaign has raised more than $32,000 as of Sunday afternoon.
"You're what really everybody has to do, and I believe that," Bouchard told Smith in the interview. "I've seen from the beginning of this, everything has been about following orders, it's all about compliance, but I don't really see a real direction we're going in other than making people fit into a mold."
Laramie High School's mask mandate is in place until Oct. 15, at which time school officials will decide if it will be extended.
She did not have the right to be there. A school is restricted public property. It is not public access. She was notified that she need to wear a mask to be on the property.
No, truancy would not have been in play. Especially since Covid, many schools have the option for on line learning.
Highly unlikely and certainly not by the LEO who issued her the notice of trespass. Many schools have on line education options for those who are unable to attend.
Further, Wyoming code section 21-4-102 subsection (a iii) specifically states - The child has been legally excluded from the regular schools pursuant to the provisions of W.S. 21-4-306.
I would assert that a notice of criminal trespass qualifies as “legally excluded”.
In subsection B of the same code. It also states that homeschooling is an option.
And meanwhile they release a punk who shot up a school
It’s not that simple. Just because someone says it’s a rule doesn’t make it lawful. She and her parents values her constitutional rights. Her rights were violated. She consulted her attorney and determined she was within her right and decided she will not surrender or give up any of her rights. Legal challenges across multiple state court districts have ruled schools cannot require masks.This is not a valid trespassing situation. Schools cannot require masks. US Constitution is not void where prohibited by a school board. Police took an oath to uphold the constitution. Hope you learn something.
The socialists can count on the cooperation of closet nazis to enforce their unconstitutional mandates and selectively prosecute. Several sadly are on this thread.
Correct! Where are the cops standing up for the Constitution they swore to defend?
And the court proceedings are the best place to adjudicate those actions. A far better choice would have been to request a formal notice of trespass from the officer and then leave, honoring the notice of trespass. From there the courts can be engaged to resolve the issue. That would have enabled her to assert her right in a legal venue and avoid the arrest.
Glad to provide some education.
She has more backbone than you do, slave.
Title is correct. Fascists told her she was trespassing in the school her parents tax dollars paid for, because she wasn’t complying with their idiotic, unscientific slave-mask mandate.
No it is incorrect. The child could have not worn the mask and left when trespassed by the LEO and no arrest would have occurred.
In the separate issue of asserting her rights, she could have requested a notice of trespass from the LEO and taken the issue to court.
The trespass was because the the mask bullshit. Why are you being pedantic
The trespass was because she did not follow the rules for access to a restricted area - wearing a mask. If the rule was that she had to wear a school uniform, and she did not, then the school can have that student removed. Yes, they should use other means and escalate, but ultimately, it comes down to does the school have the legal authority to require students dress and behave in certain manners vs a student’s right of expression.
Since SCOTUS has never directly ruled on school dress codes, it is still a grey area.
Right. If they trespassed her for a t-shirt, it would have been because of the t-shirt.
In this case, it was because of the mask rule bullshit. BECAUSE OF THE MASK RULE.
And you think the mask rule is BS. The administration does not. That is why we have courts to decide between the constitution, the law and the two opinions.
No need to try and fight the battle there at the school. Take the notice, leave, and file a lawsuit. Get your day in court.
The courts are corrupt. Or haven’t you noticed
You dont fight the cop that is arresting you when you think it is not a lawful arrest. You fight it in court later, regardless of what corruption there may be in the courts.
If you do not trust the courts, then your alternatives are to either clean up the courts, or go to war against the government.
She is a child. That cop should be ashamed. And stop defending communist acts like that. In 2019 that would have never happened!
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