Posted on 12/22/2012 9:30:54 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s not always fun and easy being a young Republican, let alone an enthusiastic Mitt Romney supporter. Whoa:
The parents of the Charles Carroll High School student ridiculed and ordered by her teacher to remove a t-shirt supporting Mitt Romney sued the teacher and school district on Friday, claiming the act violated the girl's civil rights.
Filed in federal court in Philadelphia, the suit says the district ignored Samantha Pawlucy's right to free speech, let other students threaten and harass her and subjected her "to emotional distress, simply because she exercised her First Amendment rights."
Fernando Gallard, a spokesman for the district, said it would not comment on the lawsuit.
Pawlucy, a 16-year-old sophomore from Port Richmond, drew national headlines from the furor that erupted when she wore a pink "Romney-Ryan" shirt during a dress-down day at school in September.
According to the lawsuit, Pawlucy had worn the shirt all day when she walked into geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon's classroom.
The teacher allegedly told the teen that Charles Carroll was a "Democratic" school and that her shirt was akin to one spouting a logo for the Ku Klux Klan. She ordered Pawlucy to remove the shirt, then enlisted an aide who tried to draw an X through the candidates' name on the shirt.
Pawlucy's parents complained to school officials and the story went viral.
Gaymon later publicly apologized to the girl. But Pawlucy claims she endured ongoing harassment and threats and was unable to return to the school.
What kind of “educator” acts this way? Sure, teachers can certainly disagree with the political opinions of their students. But to publicly embarrass -- and ridicule -- a young girl for supporting a major party candidate for president is beyond comprehension. As I understand it, this geometry teacher doesn’t even attempt to engage her student in any type of meaningful discussion or dialogue. Instead, she reflexively resorts to fear tactics and intimidation. And while it’s difficult to imagine filing a full-blown lawsuit against my teacher if I found myself in a similar situation, I can fully understand why the student’s family believed this was necessary. The audaciousness of this “grown-up’s” behavior is simply astonishing.
Meanwhile, it’s comforting to know how taxpayer dollars are being spent these days: ridiculing young minds and bullying teenagers. Then again, I guess we really shouldn’t be surprised.
Now, it seems, this may go full circle.
Without looking, I have no doubt of the race of Lynette Gaymon. Her racism stands out like a sore thumb. Clearly, she has violated the child's rights, with malice. The kid should clean up in court. Ka-Ching!
Now, as these racists become ever more blatant, & they are every day, decent Americans can make some big paydays at the expense of the racist, Rat controlled schools. For the cost of a t-shirt, these people are gonna start to pay for their evil - big time.
A Willard t-shirt ? Gee whiz, it ain’t like the kid was supporting an actual Republican.
Ping for later
Photos are on the internet.
Teacher is black and weighs in at about 250
Student is white girl
Rally Planned Tuesday Morning for Bullied Pro-Romney Teen
Some advice for teacher who attacked pro-Romney student
Let’s hope Mitt makes an appearance and see if the brave bully teacher and her punk ass kids have the guts to get in his face as easily they did a young girl
Gosh, if students were allowed concealed carry on campus, the girl could have whipped out a Glock and told the teacher:
“Back off byotch, I am defending my 1st Amendment rights and you are a being a fascist.”
The teacher is obviously a liberal racist...nothing new here.
Many of the "educators" in Germany in the '30s.
No wonder our country is going to hell in a handbasket.
She should get in a steel cage wrestling match with Moochelle
Well yep: She is black..No surprise there.
Her students held a Rally and said she would never intentionally embarrass a student like this.
I gues it was unintentional. Just a reflex action of being black and having her Messiah challenged.
No problem this kid is wasting her time going after the melanindefended teacher-— in Philadelphia yet.LOL.
The teacher allegedly told the teen that Charles Carroll was a “Democratic” school....................................... Why was she there? Did she really expect to learn anything in a Democrat School other than how to get entitlements? I’m sooo Glad Obama is ending the divisiveness in our country with Democratic Schools. Soon all schools will be “Democratic” schools, then there will really be no more divisiveness throughout the land. We will be One Folk, One Country and One leader. Obama’s Picture will remain on the school walls once he is made President for life. Something to look forward to. :(
Liberals don’t understand professionalism I guess.
"The taxpayer" is the employer of this teacher, making "him" responsible for her actions in the course of her employment. Maybe if the taxpayer gets hit for enough additional costs due to the behavior of his employees, he'll rethink his commitment to supporting the system in which they work.
He could support a system in which he was able to hold his employees personally accountable, or, if he doesn't have children attending school, he could support a system in all the responsibility falls on those who either do have school-children or who volunteer to participate.
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