Washington: High school student suspended for abandoning school-approved speech

A high school sophomore from Edmonds, Washington, running for student government, was suspended for a day and a half after he substituted his own speech for a school-approved one.

The student had urged students to boycott the election since student government officers were puppets of the teachers and had no real power. The boy’s mother is appealing the suspension to the school board on the grounds that the speech created no disruption at the school. -db

From the Daily Herald, February 14, 2011, by Katya Yefimova.

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