Senior class president suspended over Tweet [View all]
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 Teague’s personal Twitter page Thursday, said: “‘Heights U’ is equivalent to WSU’s 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 Teague’s right to post them.
“It’s completely unfair, and I just think it’s a joke,” Teague said Tuesday.
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