The selective suspension of this student for posting a photo of a mask-less crowd in a Georgia high school is preposterous and pretextual. The officials should now be ashamed of themselves on two accounts. 1/ cnn.com/2020/08/07/us/…
This effort to suppress bad news about the realities within our our schools as they re-open is evocative of the absurd efforts to do the same for our hospitals at the outset of the COVID19 pandemic. We will not beat this pandemic with denial and lies. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 2/
The truth is a casualty of epidemics, alas, as I discuss (among many other topics) in #ApollosArrow, my new book out in October, on the COVID19 pandemic: amazon.com/Apollos-Arrow-… 3/
Given the wide publicity of this student's absurd suspension, the school has relented. Good. Here she is:
And all this reminds me of Tinker v. Des Moines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v.…
Free speech does not stop at the schoolhouse gate. Quite the contrary. 4/
An outbreak now reported at the school: nine cases of COVID-19 reported at North Paulding High School ajc.com/education/9-ca… 5/
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