UPDATE – rather shocking news reversal:
It seems the otherwise heroic girl in question actually faked this whole thing, and will now likely be charged with filing a false report. Read this story here.
Even as I read the first bit of this story, I thought to myself: this eighth-grade school project is a bad idea on so many levels. (Example 1: Why teach children about “activism” and “how to engage in protest”? Shouldn’t that be a tad more “organic”—more natural and spontaneous—than that? Why do people, particularly when it comes to education—and don’t doubt that this is liberal-left thinking—think they have to “teach” children these things (but not others)? Is this another example of teachers advocating their own politics and sensibilities in the classroom?)
Teen hurt after taking illegal immigration sign to school
3 students given in-school suspension in scuffle
By PAUL J. WEBER
Associated PressDALLAS — A teenager who took a sign reading “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration” to school said she was hurt after being swarmed by angry classmates, and administrators said Tuesday they have suspended three students involved in the scuffle.
“It’s disappointing that it happened,” Athens school district superintendent Fred Hayes said. “It does not surprise me with the political nature of this issue.”
Melanie Bowers, 13, brought the sign to Athens Middle School on Friday as part of a class project on political activism. Each child was assigned to pick an issue and prepare a poster supporting a position.
Hayes said she was showing the sign in the hallway when a group of students tried wresting it away.
J.R. Bowers, the girl’s father, said Melanie suffered scratch marks along her neck, face and arms. He said she also had a swollen jaw.
Bowers said as many as 20 students surrounded his daughter in the hallway, and Hayes said others may have hurled verbal insults. The poster was ultimately destroyed by other students.
Her dad acknowledged in the story:
“The night before she had this due, she started telling me about this assignment,” Bowers said. “I looked at her and said, ‘This is a bad idea. This is going to go south real quick.’”
Go south? Or the south going north?
And by the way, let me repeat: “If you love our nation (or the USA), stop illegal immigration”.
Go Melanie Bowers!
(Hat tip to Matt B. for the article)
Also see this Absolut follow-up
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