Jury: Student Can Form Anarchy Club

[Suzie]

Jury: Student Can Form Anarchy Club
Jury Says W. Va. Student Can Form Anarchy Club, but Upholds Her Suspension for Disrupting the School

The Associated Press



CHARLESTON, W.Va. July 12 — Sissonville High School was wrong to ban an anarchy club but was right to suspend the student who proposed it in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a jury decided Friday.

The jury awarded student Katie Sierra $1 in damages. She was suspended for three days in October because she had fliers at her desk promoting her proposed club after administrators rejected it.

Principal Forrest Mann also ordered Sierra not to wear T-shirts with handwritten messages that included, "When I saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered sense of national security. God Bless America."

The jury agreed with the school board's argument that such messages disrupted other students' education.

Kanawha County school board lawyer Gary Pullin said the school became more polarized after the attacks and Sierra was a target of anger because of the club.

Sierra, 15, said she was happy withMORE HERE (http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020712_1537.html)

[Timberwolf]

No big deal...the club will self-destruct b/c only anarchists will be members!! Just make sure the meetings are OFF-campus or they'll likely have to rebuild it! images/icons/grin.gif

[**DONOTDELETE**]

the anarchist got a buck...
taxpayers got passed big bucks...

[Venus]

Lettuce! I'm glad to see ya! Hi! How ya' been, lady?

I remember this story. I was more disgusted with her shirt and her silly parents than I was the notion of an anarchy club because kids that age don't know what they're talking about when it comes to political science and philosophy, so I agree with Timber.

Lose the shirt, keep the club. Not a problem. She'll sell the shirt, the club will fold - much ado about nothing.

Suzie, thanks for the update on this story.

[DoctorDoom]

The school should take a common sense approach on this.

"Okay, you can have your Anarchist Club. But, we need to know who the club's officers are for our official records."

How do they answer?

[Suzie]

Your welcome Venus. The middle school that feeds this High school had another case where the Principal was bringing his dog to school. The dog bit a child and he was told never to bring it again. He did ... now there has been another bite. ANOTHER lawsuit filed in that school system. images/icons/frown.gif The girl in this case should know better than to try this in a redneck school. She will never live in peace again. I recommend she stock up on something that removes eggs and toilet paper easily. Or better yet just move away.

[pja]

Sierra?? Sierra!?! There are reasons why parents name kids "Sierra" and it directly corresponds to why they turn out weird. That is fodder for another thread.

Anarchists are really pathetic. I haven't encountered a self labeled anarchist who had a clue about survival. You see, survival skills are required if you advocate anarchy. Not one of these babies could feed itself without a grocery store nor cloth itself with out Calven Kline. Anarchy and primal survival go hand in hand. In a state of anarchy there are no grocery stores, no roads free of bandits, no clothing stores, and you better have a bigger gun than your neighbor, you better have a real understanding of friendship and committment.

Pat (aka pja)