Teen sues over letter to editor

The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal ^ | 29 January 2002 | Linda Kane

[bwteim]

True.

[Happygal]

Well. I haven't read any responses to this article but...here's my tuppence worth.

I was educated by the nuns. (What do you expect when yer born, bred and reared in Ireland?). So I couldn't (excuse the French) fart crooked and a nun had me in detention.

So friggin' what?

I was editor of the school magazine (and was hauled over the coals over stuff I wanted to print..and wasn't let).

But at the end of the day.......those nuns, (that I hated) gave me an education.

And every time I went home and complained about what Sr. So-and-so wouldn't let me do, me Ma gave me a skelp across the back of the ear and said ``She was probably doin' ye good''

I'm not saying what happened in this case was right.

In fact, what happened to ME wasn't probably right. But as a 16 year old it WAS right. I wasn't allowed to moan to newspapers as a child to get attention. I got a kick up the ass and was sent to my room.

And the result is...?

I'm now a very vocal....CONSERVATIVE...journalist!!!

[mountaineer]

Too bad you didn't bother to read what I said before making your snotty remark. I didn't support what the administration did, I merely pointed out that as a legal matter the kid does not appear to have suffered any harm, inasmuch as his letter was published and he received no punishment as a result, and so the lawsuit does not appear to be supportable.

[MarkWar]

>This is what happened, from my source... "you are right the Doors did light my fire and people are strange on the Ed Sullivan show, not break on through,.. ..."

"Oh. Never mind."

Thanks for the correction. I was close.

Mark W.

[AUgrad]

Supt. Morris has forbidden plaintiff Justin Latimer from writing letters to the editor of the Crosby County News and Chronicle without defendant Morris' prior review and approval, simply because Supt. Morris did not approve of Justin's viewpoint in a previously published letter," the lawsuit states.

This young man needs to write a letter to the editor of every newspaper in the area each day rabidly criticisizing both the superintendant and his ignorant belief that he can censor a private citizen. What is this stupid superintendant going to do? He is an idiot if he thinks he can do ANYTHING about it.

[drjimmy]

Too bad you didn't bother to read what I said before making your snotty remark. I didn't support what the administration did, I merely pointed out that as a legal matter the kid does not appear to have suffered any harm, inasmuch as his letter was published and he received no punishment as a result, and so the lawsuit does not appear to be supportable.
The kid did the smart thing by making this a legal matter now. He put the school on notice not to try any funny business. It would be much harder to prove after the fact, if he had written another letter and found his grades were suddenly lower, that there was a direct correlation between the two.

[FreePaul]

and then let his superintendent sue him ...

Because, as we see so often, these petty beauracrats can exercise a considerable amount of power and cause irreparable harm by their actions. There would be no need for the beauracrat to sue. He can do his damage within the school system. The student could be expelled, forced to attend special classes, etc. and have his future in education jeopardized. We need more Justin Latimers and absolutely no one like Larry Morris.

[BikinLiLo]

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