A high school student in Dallas, Ga., was suspended for posting a picture of her school’s hallways crowded with students not wearing masks or social distancing. The principal and superintendent who suspended the student are the ones who should be suspended or fired.
The student’s suspension was based on a rule that students can’t post pictures of other students in school.
Hannah Watters, the suspended student, called posting the picture “good and necessary trouble,” quoting the late Rep. John Lewis.
The superintendent said that while the picture looks bad, it was taken out of context.
Really?
Students are packed in that hallway. Few students are wearing masks.
The superintendent said it was only for a few minutes between classes. And he can’t require masks. No, stupid regulations and a Trump-ass-kissing governor prevent that. But instead of suspending a student, the superintendent could wear a mask and recommend all students do the same.
Is science taught at that school? Watters understands the science. The person in charge of the safety of students in that school district does not. No masks and no social distancing means if one person is infected with the coronavirus, that student or teacher can spread it to a hundred people surrounding them — in just the few minutes the students are packed in that hall.
Watters’ suspension was “deleted.” If any students in that school contract COVID-19, the superintendent should be fired. If any of the students die from COVID-19, the superintendent should be charged with murder.
— David Taffet
There is no way this student should have been suspended for raising a health safety concern. However, some of the rhetoric in the article is imo unfair.
Some few students have chosen to protect themselves with masks. Many students have chosen not to protect themselves with masks. Each side has made a choice, and after you make a choice, you have to take some of the responsibility yourself for some of the consequences of your choices. Every student there has made the choice to go back to school rather than homeschool. There may, and probably were important economic reasons why some families sent their kids to school. But at this point, everyone knows their are some risks to being in public with others, some risks to not wearing a mask. People make choices others disagree with all the time, but given that people know the facts, the responsibility for their choices really has to lie at least mostly with the students and families choosing not to use masks., and choosing to attend school.