Georgia student suspended after posting photo of crowded school hallway...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[MineralMan]

1. You Made Some Good Trouble, Hannah!

[Thekaspervote]

2. So, now their going to take kids cells phones? What idiots..taking cell phones will stop that virus

What lunacy

[magicarpet]

3. Young people have magical immunity to Covid-19,...

... they never catch it or bring it home to their families or cause their grandparents to get sick and die from the wildly spreading pandemic.

So says pResident trDump....

[lpbk2713]

4. It's obvious the school admins wanted to cover their own asses.

And now it's flying back in their faces. Their damage control efforts should be amusing.

[CottonBear]

5. She is an impressive young woman! Intelligent, well-spoken and fearless. N/T

[teach1st]

6. Her suspension has been "deleted"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/north-paulding-high-school-coronavirus-georgia.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

A 15-year-old student at North Paulding, Hannah Watters, was suspended for five days for posting images of the crowded hallways on Twitter, according to her mother, Lynne Watters, who said she filed a grievance with the school on Thursday morning.

“I expressed my concerns and disagreement with that punishment,” Ms. Watters said in a text message Thursday.

On Friday morning, Hannah tweeted that the school had called and “deleted” her suspension. She will be able to return to school on Monday, she said. “To everyone supporting me, I can’t thank you enough,” she wrote.

The high school and school district did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

[JT45242]

7. I would bet the district lawyers chimed in

This had MEGA Lawsuit written all over it.

This was grossly unprofessional and illegal. The district would not want to pay out for the civil lawsuit.

Would not be surprised if the district liability insurer did not also call. They called so many of the shots when I was a school teacher.

Other decisions were based on whether or not the district leadership thought the parents would know (or know someone) who could say that what was done was illegal and sue.