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Anti Federalist
03-16-2018, 09:50 AM
In the words of the great Neal Peart:

If you choose not to decide,
You still have made a choice.




Ohio Student Suspended for Refusing to Leave Classroom During Gun Control Walkout

https://ijr.com/2018/03/1076385-ohio-student-suspended-refusing-to-leave-classroom/

JASON HOWERTON | MAR 16, 2018 | 10:54 AM

A high school student in Hilliard, Ohio, didn’t want to pick sides in the contentious gun debate surrounding Wednesday’s “National Walkout,” so he stayed in class instead of joining the largely anti-gun protest or an alternative “study hall.”

Hilliard Davidson High School senior Jacob Shoemaker was then reportedly slapped with a suspension.

The student argued that divisive politics have no place in America’s schools and he refused to take sides in the debate, according to the Associated Press.

Shoemaker's suspension citation was posted online, possibly by a friend, and the story quickly went viral.

“Student refused to follow instructions after being warned repeatedly by several administrators,” the letter said. “Student not permitted on school property.”

School district spokesperson Stacie Raterman said official policy prohibited school officials from leaving Shoemaker unattended in the building for “security reasons,” 10TV reported.

While Shoemaker said he didn't expect for his actions to generate so much attention, he is prepared to accept the consequences of his decision.

specsaregood
03-16-2018, 09:55 AM
the school was on twitter saying this is fake news

jkr
03-16-2018, 11:13 AM
School district spokesperson Stacie Raterman said official policy prohibited school officials from leaving Shoemaker unattended in the building for “security reasons,”

hahahah WHAT?!?!?

you telln me hes not SAFE at school but he is with YOU?



that reminds me.

what is the most EXPENSIVE kind of suit?












a LAW SUIT

sue the bastards, never work again!

Danke
03-16-2018, 11:48 AM
Scott Shoemaker was flooded with messages of support, death threats and offers from attorneys because of a viral internet post claiming his son was suspended for refusing to join the national walkout on Wednesday to protest guns in schools.
The story wasn’t true, but that didn’t stop thousands from sharing it.
The photo of a Hilliard City Schools suspension slip made its away around Twitter and Facebook — along with Shoemaker’s name and phone number on it.
The now-viral story is 100 percent false, the Hilliard district says. Shoemaker says that the story is partially true, but not in the way the sharers are trying to spin it.
“There are a lot of groups out there that are using this to push an agenda, and I don’t appreciate that,” said Shoemaker, whose son Jacob, a Hilliard Davidson 12th-grader, was suspended.
On Twitter, users are sending around the photo with such hashtags as #GunControlNever, #Indoctrination, #LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder. One retweeter said, “George Orwell’s 1984 dystopian society ruled by government.” Another commented, “Penalized for not falling in line with Marxist social engineering?”
Jacob Shoemaker felt as though he would be making a political statement about guns by walking outside with those students, his father said, but he’d also be making one if he stayed in and allowed himself to be sent to wherever the non-protesters were being rounded up in the building. Being “middle of the road” politically, he didn’t want to make either statement, Shoemaker said.
Jacob told his father on Tuesday night that he felt like other students and, to some extent, school officials were pressuring him. Each side was judging the other.
″’The biggest problem, Dad, is that there shouldn’t be politics in the classroom... I may just sit in my seat. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the least intrusive of the choices I’ve been given,‴ Jacob said, according to his father. The boy also told him that he was far from the only student who felt that way.


Shoemaker told his son that he supported whatever decision he made, but he should know there might be consequences.
So Jacob did stay in his seat. About an hour after his lone act of civil disobedience, he was handed the out-of-school suspension for Wednesday for failing to follow instructions to either join students outside or those in the study hall.
“He stayed in the classroom, where he was supposed to be in the first place,” Shoemaker said. “It’s kind of ironic.”
The slip in the photograph says, “Student refused to follow instructions after being warned repeatedly by several administrators. Student not permitted on school property 24 hours.”
No students were suspended for not walking out, said Hilliard district spokeswoman Stacie Raterman. No students were suspended for walking out, though about 10 were punished for lingering outside more than an hour after being warned.
Raterman was prohibited by federal student privacy laws from discussing whether Jacob was punished for anything. She did confirm that the suspension slip in the photo is a real one.
“I can say that our students were given two options: one, attend the gathering or two, have a study hall,” Raterman said in an email. “We are responsible for the safety of our students; we can’t allow students to be unsupervised. The study hall was our way of making sure our students were safe and supervised.


“In any situation,” she continued, “we would explain to a student the choices, and explain what the consequences would be if they chose a different option. We would never blindside a student with a suspension without having a purposeful conversation ahead of time.”
Shoemaker said Jacob photographed the suspension slip and sent it to his friends, one of whom shared it online. That teen likely didn’t imagine that it would be picked up and shared thousands of times.
Nor did that friend consider that Mr. Shoemaker’s name and phone number were on it.
Voicemails and texts have been flooding in since the wee hours on Thursday, from haters and supporters alike, he said. Shoemaker said he might have to change the number if this doesn’t die down.
Hilliard school officials experienced their share of grief on Thursday, too.
“We purposely let these students create these events to allow students to mourn and to avoid the politics, and now here we are getting taken to task for this,” Raterman said. “It’s a bit of a shame.”

http://www.daily-jeff.com/news/20180315/hilliard-student-wasnt-suspended-for-avoiding-gun-protest-but-internet-doesnt-believe-that

phill4paul
03-16-2018, 12:41 PM
The story wasn’t true, but that didn’t stop thousands from sharing it.


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Seems the story is true to a degree. The kid didn't want to get mixed up in political shenanigans one way or the other and was punished for it.

dannno
03-16-2018, 12:44 PM
Seems the story is true to a degree. The kid didn't want to get mixed up in political shenanigans one way or the other and was punished for it.

Well that, and he doesn't realize that the right (pro-gun) side is the side that has the most issues with free speech these days and thus that is why they identify with his stance and have been promoting his story. He seems to be confused why the right (pro-gun) side is promoting his story even though he isn't pro-gun, but the reason they identify is because of the free speech issue and how schools try to propagandize kids toward the left in general.

EBounding
03-16-2018, 01:07 PM
Has he contacted the ACLU? (https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/student-speech-and-privacy/can-schools-discipline-students-protesting)

pcosmar
03-16-2018, 02:25 PM
Seems the story is true to a degree. The kid didn't want to get mixed up in political shenanigans one way or the other and was punished for it.

Sad. He actually thought he had a choice.

at least it was learning experience.

jkr
03-16-2018, 03:16 PM
Has he contacted the ACLU? (https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/student-speech-and-privacy/can-schools-discipline-students-protesting)

Hahaha hahaha hahaha oh, you're killing me