The administration of St. John's School has violated their own handbook by publicizing both the punishment and the gender of a student who wrote an insensitive comment on his twitter feed. The signees of the petition do not condone what Mr. Smith said nor do they disagree with the administration's decision to punish him, but they disagree with degree of the punishment and/or the public nature of it. We ask for a formal apology for how the situation was handled, and that in the future the administration does not use people's failures as "teachable moments" in a way that can publicly shame a student.

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