"Government" class.....oh, the irony.
Posted on 02/09/2023 4:54:02 PM PST by montag813
"Government" class.....oh, the irony.
Last fall, a high school senior in Iowa was suspended for wearing a pro-Second Amendment shirt to her government class, and now her mother is suing the teacher, the principal, and the district.
On Monday, Janet Bristow of Johnston, Iowa, a northwest suburb of Des Moines, filed a lawsuit in a U.S. district court alleging that the suspension violated her daughter's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
In late August 2022, Tom Griffin taught his government students at Johnston High School that their rights were "extremely limited" once they entered the classroom, despite the 1969 landmark SCOTUS ruling, Tinker, which affirmed that students and teachers do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
Griffin insisted that he would forbid students from wearing any clothing which depicts "guns, alcohol, or any other 'inappropriate material,'" the lawsuit states.
Bristow's daughter, identified in the lawsuit only as "A.B.," was in that class and determined that Griffin had erred in his assessment. Two days later, on September 1, she went to school wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a rifle and the phrase "What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?" emblazoned on the front.
Bristow alleged in the lawsuit that A.B. had worn that shirt before without incident and that the girl's older brother, who graduated from Johnston High School in 2019, also wore the shirt without a problem during his time at the school.
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Take their pensions
Sue them into poverty. These woke groomer commie educators need to get the message loud and strong. Make it hurt.
Did the shirt have a picture of a gun on it?
Sometimes the facts of a landmark case, like the quote on the shirt, are so clear, both sides cannot help themselves but fight it out. Hopefully it will figured out legaly before A.B. is signing up retirement. I know if I were on the school board, I would thank the teacher for the cost of the lawsuits and sugest he move to teaching in prisons, else I would take out my vengeance on the entire union.
Yes
“ Griffin insisted that he would forbid students from wearing any clothing which depicts “guns, alcohol, or any other ‘inappropriate material,’” the lawsuit states.”
So it’s established that class had a rule to not wear clothes with depictions if guns.
Yes, a rifle.
So he broke the dress code rules.
If he’d worn the same shirt with only the words would he be reprimanded?
Thanks. I looked too and saw it.
When I was in Junior High a kid wore a “Mr. Zog’s Sex Wax” T-Shirt. Now, for the unitiated, that’s the name of wax for your surfboard not for sex. The Principle made him wear it inside out for the day. No suspension, no lawsuits. Maybe the word ‘sex’ was inappropriate for 12 year olds... not sure. Don’t remember. But I don’t think we were thinking of sex at that age. We knew it was for surfing. It was California after all.
Not allowed to support the US Constitution now in American schools.
Wont be long before the constitution is banned in class because the word “amendment” has the word “men” smack dab in the middle of it
Time to wear a shirt with a printing press and a speakers podium with the same statement to school. Chances are the 'education' majors would not recognize either picture.
Yeah. Kid broke rule but suspension is harsh.
Back in the mid-60s, at the height of Beatle Mania, I came to school with a Beatles haircut. The principal pulled me out of line and quietly said that that cut would be gone before I came to school again. It was..
Please!!! Pension should be gone!
Yes
Yeah, suspension too harsh.
And I spelled Principal wrong. I should know better I spent a lot of time in his office. Not always because I was naughty. I was sometimes helpful :-) And I knew the Dewey Decimal System.
I didn’t even notice principle/principal.
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