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http://stoughton.wickedlocal.com/news/20170201/fallout-continues-over-handling-of-stoughton-high-swastika
A high school student fashioned a swastika out of tape and displayed it in the school hallway. A classmate was offended and asked him to take it down. He did, but allegedly made an offensive remark to the complainer. The incident was investigated and there were student suspensions (there had been another swastika incident that involved other students as well).
However, in the absence of community dialogue about the incident, some teachers ended up discussing it with students, either privately or as part of a class discussion. One teacher rescinded the letter of recommendation she had written for the hallway-decorator's college application and she told the college why. This prompted the student's parents to hire a civil rights attorney to investigate. This resulted in two teachers being reprimanded for discussing the incident and for the teacher who rescinded her recommendation letter to be suspended for 20 days without pay.
Is the what the notion of "free-speech" has come to? Now we are teaching kids that they have the right to free-speech without consequence. Say whatever you want and everyone else has to shut up about it.
A high school student fashioned a swastika out of tape and displayed it in the school hallway. A classmate was offended and asked him to take it down. He did, but allegedly made an offensive remark to the complainer. The incident was investigated and there were student suspensions (there had been another swastika incident that involved other students as well).
However, in the absence of community dialogue about the incident, some teachers ended up discussing it with students, either privately or as part of a class discussion. One teacher rescinded the letter of recommendation she had written for the hallway-decorator's college application and she told the college why. This prompted the student's parents to hire a civil rights attorney to investigate. This resulted in two teachers being reprimanded for discussing the incident and for the teacher who rescinded her recommendation letter to be suspended for 20 days without pay.
Is the what the notion of "free-speech" has come to? Now we are teaching kids that they have the right to free-speech without consequence. Say whatever you want and everyone else has to shut up about it.
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