Courtesy of the Daily Beast:My kid and two other students walked out of their rural, very conservative, public school for 17 minutes today. They were given two punishment options. They chose corporal punishment. This generation is not playing around. #walkout— Jerusalem Greer (@JerusalemGreer) March 14, 2018
Three students in a rural part of Arkansas have allegedly been smacked for participating in Wednesday’s national walkout protesting against gun violence.
Despite that drastic punishment, one student’s mother, Jerusalem J. Greer, applauded her son and the other students at Greenbrier Public School for their defiant protest following the deadly shooting that killed 15 students and two adults at Stoneman Douglas High School last month in Parkland, Florida.
“My kid and two other students walked out of their rural, very conservative, public school for 17 minutes today,” Greer wrote on Twitter. “They were given two punishment options. They chose corporal punishment. This generation is not playing around.”
According to Greenbrier Public School’s official policy, the school board “authorizes the use of corporal punishment to be administered in accordance with this policy by the Superintendent or his/her designated staff members who are required to have a state-issued license as a condition of their employment.”
The handbook says that before students are smacked they are to be “given an explanation of the reasons for the punishment and be given an opportunity to refute the charges. administered privately, i.e. out of the sight and hearing of other students.”
This has to be the most tone deaf response to these protests imaginable.
Think about it.
These children take to the streets to protest that fact that they do not feel safe in their own schools, and the response is to physically abuse them?
And in 2018 no less.
They shouldn't have been punished for exercising their first amendment rights, period. Gunhumpers conveniently forget that there are other amendments besides the second.
ReplyDeleteI just read the student's description of the event and the repurcussion that followed and I feel compelled to say that he sounds as passionate, brave, and eloquent as any of the Parkland students. I hope 'children' like this continue to set a positive example for other kids who follow in their path, and continue to shame and stop in their tracks the obsolete adults who continue to push their greedy, deadly agendas.
ReplyDelete[The following is the last part of the young man's, Wylie Greer's, post. He bears no ill-will to authority, mind you, but makes his point as crystal clear as if he were channeling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself]
'...I received my punishment during 6th period. The dean-of-students carried it out while the assistant principal witnessed. The punishment was not dealt with malice or cruelty, in fact, I have the utmost respect for all the adults involved. They were merely doing their job as the school board and school policy dictated. The ‘swats’ were not painful or injuring. It was nothing more than a temporary sting on my thighs. The dean-of-students did stress however that not all punishments like this ended this way.
I believe that corporal punishment has no place in schools, even if it wasn’t painful to me. The idea that violence should be used against someone who was protesting violence as a means to discipline them is appalling. I hope that this is changed, in Greenbrier, and across the country.
Wylie A. Greer'
In my grandson's middle school, located in a sleepy ex-logging town of 3000, a group of kids took that 17 minutes to protest with a "biblical" banner chanting "guns are okay, liberals are gay."
ReplyDeleteThese are THIRTEEN year olds, mind you. Go ahead, tell me that it doesn't start at home and in churches. SMDH.
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Always tell your kids to take the suspension, the school loses federal funds every day a child isn't in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteChristians love to quote the NewTestament, and claim they don't have to follow ANY of the Jewish laws and commandments in the Old Testament any more, because god killed his son for humans.
ReplyDeleteThese same people in the next sentence will then pick ANY OLD TESTAMENT VERSE THEY LIKE, that suits their purpose, or that reinforces their hatred and prejudice, and use that to justify beating children, stoning gays to death, or a thousand other things.
Religions are the worst scourge to ever be inflictedon humanity by far.