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Showing Original Post only (View all)11-year-old sent to principal's office for telling fellow students to stop making Nazi salute [View all]
Source: Jewish Telegraph Agency
An 11-year-old Tennessee girl who told her classmates to stop making the Nazi salute was sent to the principals office, her father said in a tweet in which he asked the public to send her messages of support.
Gamble said that a student at his daughters McFadden School of Excellence in Murfreesboro was assigned to play Hitler for the schools Living History project and to make the Sieg Heil salute. After students started to make the salute all over school, his daughter told them privately that she thought it was wrong.
Read more: https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/11-year-old-sent-to-principals-office-for-telling-fellow-students-to-stop-making-nazi-salute
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11-year-old sent to principal's office for telling fellow students to stop making Nazi salute [View all]
DavidDvorkin
May 2019
OP
"Mrs. A," the teacher who sent her to the principal, and the principal, both need to be fired.
SunSeeker
May 2019
#3
The headline is correct. Merely being sent to the principal's office amounts to discipline.
SunSeeker
May 2019
#8
The only "situation" they were trying to calm down was the girl's objections to the salutes.
SunSeeker
May 2019
#14
An opportunity for the school to dig in to why it's wrong. The entire lead up to genocide.
Evolve Dammit
May 2019
#13