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Student Sues High School Principal for Violating His First Amendment Rights to Free Speech and Religion
New American ^ | 02/02/2022 | Bob Adelmann

Posted on 02/03/2022 6:05:26 AM PST by Bon of Babble

David Stout, a junior at Plainwell High School in Michigan, was suspended for three days last fall as punishment for expressing his religious beliefs in a private conversation with a friend.

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"After reviewing the background, which extends back to April 2021, the attorneys took on the case and filed suit last Thursday, claiming that the school’s principal, assistant principal, and band director all violated Stout’s First Amendment right to express his beliefs":Slide1-15

Love to see kids hit back at school tyrants that lord over them with their "woke" rules.

1 posted on 02/03/2022 6:05:26 AM PST by Bon of Babble
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To: Bon of Babble

In addition to any other remedy the courts order I suggest the principal, assistant principal and Band teacher be ordered to each write a ten-page essay on the first amendment and why they were wrong. The essays are to be handed in on a date certain with the declaration, under penalty of perjury, that they were written by the parties with no outside help.

I look forward to grammatical corrections.


2 posted on 02/03/2022 6:15:10 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods

After being graded - and fact checked - they could read them in front of the school.


3 posted on 02/03/2022 6:17:22 AM PST by Betty Jane
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To: Bon of Babble

bondsforthewin.com

!!!

Use it

Or lose it.


4 posted on 02/03/2022 6:29:19 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Bon of Babble

“...and “grant such other and further relief as is just and appropriate.”

Which should also include enough $$$ to cover David’s college education upto and including grad school.


5 posted on 02/03/2022 6:50:19 AM PST by moovova
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To: Bon of Babble

Sounds like the student’s “friend” and “fellow Christian” who reported him is neither a friend nor Christian.


6 posted on 02/03/2022 6:57:55 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Sounds like the friend purposely set him up.


7 posted on 02/03/2022 7:50:55 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Bon of Babble
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to PETITION THE GOVERNMENT for a redress of grievances.
8 posted on 02/03/2022 7:54:21 AM PST by MosesKnows
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To: Bon of Babble

I’d be willing to bet a huge sum of money that if the student had been Muslim and was taking about his/her religion to another student not one of these very very concerned school employees would have said word one.


9 posted on 02/03/2022 7:56:43 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Bon of Babble

This happened 10 months ago? This kid should have gotten an attorney sooner than this. A demand letter would probably have yielded results. I hope they are suing these clowns personally as well as the district.


10 posted on 02/03/2022 8:57:55 AM PST by Ford4000
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To: Ford4000

According to the article, the parents got a law firm right after he was suspended.


11 posted on 02/03/2022 9:20:09 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Bon of Babble

The story contains a contradiction.
It says the conversation did not take place on campus, which would be and open and shut case of his 1st amendment rights being violated, but in another place it says the conversation took place in a hallway.
I’m sure the school board will argue the location of the convesation is reavant.
And no, the other boy was not a friend. I am willing to believe he thinks he’s a “open minded Christian” from a church like the Presbyterian USA.


12 posted on 02/03/2022 11:19:37 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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