Protect Our Students' Free Speech at Walton High School
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Venkat Krishnamoorthy
9 years ago
Immensely proud of this family's stance in support of freedom of speech. Walton HS has a variety of serious issues when it comes to how they treat the student community. As another commenter pointed out, they are totally grade oriented and not in the service of students. The administration should take a serious look at its ineffective policies. And it is time for the Principal Ms. McNeil to be let go. The buck stops at the top and it is time for a change.
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Paddy
9 years ago
Walton does it again!
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Rich Pellegrino
9 years ago
This brave girl and her mother need our support for standing up and out! As a local civil rights activist, I, together with others, will make sure this is a learning moment for this School District, which we have already been meeting with over this very issue---free speech and first amendment rights of students. Thank you for your courage!
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Ella
9 years ago
This is unbelievable. That shirt and wording does not promote hate or incite violence... It's one person expressing their disappointment with the approval of values that our president-eject espouses.
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Heather Snow
10 years ago
Good for you both for speaking out and taking action against this intolerance.
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Julie Henshaw
10 years ago
What a horrible administration! Shame on you! What does this teach our generation??? What have you accomplished by singling out this Child!! So glad my kids won't be going to this school!!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Freedom of speech is what makes this country great. What a shame that there are administrators who don't value such a basic right.
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Kassandra Fruin
10 years ago
Support the good fight all the way from Connecticut!
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Asal
10 years ago
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Domenique Meneses
10 years ago
literally what the hell.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
This violates her first amendment rights
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Zoe Wilhelmsen
10 years ago
you go girl!
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Joelle Gill
10 years ago
Free the speech!!!!!!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
All the best
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Griffin Driskell
10 years ago
The Walton High School administration is historically a bunch of bigots. They also contested the forming of the Gay Straight Alliance several years ago.
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Peter Wagner
10 years ago
Walton high need to have higher standards than this as one of the leading high schools in the state. Shame on the school officials for this injustice to the girl. You owe her an apology in public.
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Jeremy Dickerson
10 years ago
Freedom of speech/expression is a pretty simply thing.
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Sherry Vicznesky
10 years ago
This is awful. No school should do this, our state, Georgia, is a great state and I am ashamed of what this school has been allowed to get away with!!
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Lisa
10 years ago
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Shame on you Walton. Not that I'm surprised. The same thing happened to me as a former student there, except back then it was over religious beliefs. I am pagan and our ignorant principal at the time thought that meant I was a satanist. He made me prove that I was not and explain my religion to him ...
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Raban
10 years ago
I graduated from Walton last year, and I'm not surprised this happened. This is horrible.
Immensely proud of this family's stance in support of freedom of speech. Walton HS has a variety of serious issues when it comes to how they treat the student community. As another commenter pointed out, they are totally grade oriented and not in the service of students. The administration should take a serious look at its ineffective policies. And it is time for the Principal Ms. McNeil to be let go. The buck stops at the top and it is time for a change.
Walton does it again!
This brave girl and her mother need our support for standing up and out! As a local civil rights activist, I, together with others, will make sure this is a learning moment for this School District, which we have already been meeting with over this very issue---free speech and first amendment rights of students. Thank you for your courage!
This is unbelievable. That shirt and wording does not promote hate or incite violence... It's one person expressing their disappointment with the approval of values that our president-eject espouses.
Good for you both for speaking out and taking action against this intolerance.
What a horrible administration! Shame on you! What does this teach our generation??? What have you accomplished by singling out this Child!! So glad my kids won't be going to this school!!
Freedom of speech is what makes this country great. What a shame that there are administrators who don't value such a basic right.
Support the good fight all the way from Connecticut!
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literally what the hell.
This violates her first amendment rights
you go girl!
Free the speech!!!!!!
All the best
The Walton High School administration is historically a bunch of bigots. They also contested the forming of the Gay Straight Alliance several years ago.
Walton high need to have higher standards than this as one of the leading high schools in the state. Shame on the school officials for this injustice to the girl. You owe her an apology in public.
Freedom of speech/expression is a pretty simply thing.
This is awful. No school should do this, our state, Georgia, is a great state and I am ashamed of what this school has been allowed to get away with!!
Shame on you Walton. Not that I'm surprised. The same thing happened to me as a former student there, except back then it was over religious beliefs. I am pagan and our ignorant principal at the time thought that meant I was a satanist. He made me prove that I was not and explain my religion to him ...
I graduated from Walton last year, and I'm not surprised this happened. This is horrible.