HIGH SCHOOL PUNISHES STUDENT
FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP
Teacher lectured 11th grader about Trump's
"hateful" rhetoric
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
An 11th grade student at a high school in Georgia says he was punished for expressing support for Donald Trump.
Patrick
Ragozzine received an administrative warning after he defended Trump
over claims made by other students that the president was racist.
The school is located in Canton, Georgia, which is about 45 minutes from the city of Atlanta.
“I overheard some students bashing
Donald Trump, making false claims that he’s a racist, sexist, xenophobic
person,” writes Ragozzine, adding that his teacher did not intervene
until Ragozzine began defending the president.
“The
teacher defended the other students and began lecturing me on Trump’s
“hateful” rhetoric and how the other students have the right to hold
those feelings,” he added.
School
officials later summoned Ragozzine to a meeting and told him that he
couldn’t discuss politics in the classroom. Ragozzine says he was told
that the area has a large Latino population and that “it’s wrong to be
discussing a wall”.
The
“description of offense” on an official administrative referral form
states, “Student has been given several warnings about making
unnecessary comments about politics or keep saying “build the wall”.
Ragozzine
was originally told he would receive an ISS (in school suspension), but
this was changed to an “administrative warning” after he posted about
it on Snapchat and friends and parents complained to the school.
“The
referral still goes on my permanent record (which colleagues will see
when I try applying) and they had to call my parents about it,” writes
Ragozzine.
Since Trump’s victory, there have been a number of incidents in schools where teachers have acted out against Trump.
Last month, a Dallas public school teacher was filmed shooting a toy gun at Trump during his inauguration while shrieking the word “die!”
Earlier this month, a teacher in Tennessee was fired after posting, “The only good Trump supporter is a dead Trump supporter,” to his Facebook page.
Meanwhile, in Naples, Florida, an elementary school teacher was reassigned to administrative duties after praising Trump’s executive order on immigration.
