High school student gets suspended for putting school for sale on Craigslist
05-29-2018, 08:51 AM
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I read elsewhere that he was an A-student, too.
While there are people protesting this decision, it would be better for him to just to embrace the decision, in the sense of sending a message of "good riddance" to the school system.
I read elsewhere that he was an A-student, too.
While there are people protesting this decision, it would be better for him to just to embrace the decision, in the sense of sending a message of "good riddance" to the school system.
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The Independence School District suspended Scheele for three days and banned him from attending graduation due to what they considered to be an “implied” threat; the 18-year-old wrote the school was for sale because of the “loss of students coming up.”
“I decided to say the reason we’re selling this is because of 'the loss of students,' because the senior class is graduating,” Scheele said Wednesday.
"In the hometown of U.S. President Harry Truman and in a place named after one of our nation’s key principles, ‘freedom,’ we hope that the district reconsiders its position and encourages the freedom of speech of our nation’s next generation of leaders,” Tony Rothert, legal director for ACLU of Missouri, said in a news release. “There is still time for the district to do the right thing and allow Kylan to walk across that stage.”
A district spokesperson said a parent contact local police about the ad, concerned about their student's safety. The Independence Police Department requested two subpoenas to determine who created and posted the ad, which the court granted.
According to the district spokesperson, the police report said, "Given the nature of the post, the Independence Police Department was treating this as a very serious threat."
The police report also said: "I also informed Scheele that due to recent school shootings there was a concern that the posted ad could have alluded to something happening at the school before or during graduation. Scheele agreed with that given the circumstances.”
The district said the Craiglist ad caused concerns and substantial disruptions at school, and multiple parents contacted the district and checked their kids out of school.
"The clear substantial and material disruption served as the basis for the suspension," the district spokesperson said.
Thousands of people online have expressed that the school district went too far.
There’s now a petition with more than 2,000 supporters calling for the district to reverse its decision. One supporter even plans to protest outside of the high school on Friday at noon.
