Anti-Abortion Protesters Target H-B Woodlawn High School in Arlington

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Anti-Abortion Protesters Target H-B Woodlawn

by ARLnow.com — June 10, 2016 at 10:30 am

A group of anti-abortion protesters conducted an unannounced demonstration outside of the H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program Thursday afternoon.

The group “had graphic signs, they filmed students, parents and staff members, attempted to distribute flyers and to engage students in discussion,” according to the following letter to parents, sent by the school’s principal.

Dear Parents/Guardians,

This afternoon, at dismissal, members of an anti-abortion group appeared in the auditorium parking lot and then on bus loop sidewalk in front of H-B Woodlawn. No advance notice was given to Arlington Public Schools or to H-B Woodlawn and this was not an approved event. HBW administrators and the Arlington police asked the group to move off of school property, but they claimed that they were in the public domain on a public sidewalk.

They had graphic signs, they filmed students, parents and staff members, attempted to distribute flyers and to engage students in discussion. It is unfortunate that they chose that type of confrontational method to express their views to students who are mostly ages 11-18. Please be assured it is not anything we would ever approve of or encourage, and we regret that the events took place. We will continue to have conversations here amongst staff and students about our procedures should they return.

Sincerely,

Casey Robinson
Principal

[tonyt53]

1. This shit has gone way too far. Westboro Baptist was just the beginning.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. If "they were in the public domain on a public sidewalk," as they claim, then

what is your objection?

I am not stipulating that they were on a public sidewalk, just asking what your issue with them would be if they were.

Best wishes.

ETA to say that I am not making a stipulation.