A recent graduate of Pembroke Pines Charter High filed a lawsuit against the school’s principal for allegedly violating her First Amendment rights, after she was suspended for posting negative comments on the Internet about a teacher…
…Two days after posting the information, Evans [the student] took it down on her own free will.
The student was not only suspended, but also removed from AP classes! I’m against AP courses, but was taught day one of ed school that you never punish a student with education or the withholding of education. What the hell is wrong with us?
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Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world’s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about Gary here.