General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenior class president suspended over Tweet
The senior class president at Heights High School has been suspended for the rest of the school year and barred from most graduation activities for posting a tweet that school officials say insulted athletes at the school.
The tweet, posted on Wesley Teagues personal Twitter page Thursday, said: Heights U is equivalent to WSUs football team.
It prompted angry reactions from some classmates who said Teague was disrespectful to athletes, particularly underclassmen who coined the phrase and sometimes use the hashtag #HeightsU on tweets about Falcon football or other athletic endeavors.
Teague says the initial tweet and a few he posted in response to critics immediately afterward were harmless and his punishment too severe. School officials said they created a disruption both online and at the school, where several students argued about the comments and Teagues right to post them.
Its completely unfair, and I just think its a joke, Teague said Tuesday.
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/05/07/2793492/heights-high-suspends-senior-class.html#storylink=cpy
defacto7
(14,162 posts)Where sports culture trumps education and free speech.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)TlalocW
(15,675 posts)And I'm very lucky that I'm no longer in high school as I had very little school spirit and did and said things worse than this guy about the sporting teams:
1. Was in marching band and put a book in my shaker to read in the stands instead of watch the game (which I knew we'd lose)
2. Suggest, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," and "Send in the Clowns," as new fight songs
3. Brag about how the marching band covered more of the field than the team did
4. Insisted (ala Funky Winkerbean) that football fields are for marching practice
TlalocW
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)Poor kid. I hope this gets overturned. Lots of things cause fights at school. Get over yourselves, athletes.
chillfactor
(7,694 posts)but then being it happened on Kansas..the state full of nut cases..so it is really no surprise...
petronius
(26,696 posts)be deported, at the minimum...
--->
<---