A Kansas teenager who wrote a disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback said Sunday that she is rejecting her high school principal’s demand for a written apology.
Emma Sullivan, 18, of the Kansas City suburb of Fairway, said she isn’t sorry and doesn’t think such a letter would be sincere.
The Shawnee Mission East senior was taking part in a Youth in Government program last week in Topeka, Kan., when she sent out a tweet from the back of a crowd of students listening to Brownback’s greeting. From her cellphone, she thumbed: “Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person (hash)heblowsalot.”
She actually made no such comment and said she was “just joking with friends.” But Brownback’s office, which monitors social media for postings containing the governor’s name, saw Sullivan’s post and contacted the Youth in Government program.
Sullivan received a scolding at school and was ordered to send Brownback an apology letter. She said Prinicipal Karl R. Krawitz even suggested talking points for the letter she was supposed to turn in Monday.
Her principal should be reprimanded for trying to force her to apologize, someone’s opinion of a politician is none of the schools fucking business.
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One thing to point out...that technically students in public schools do
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fucking fuck? This...not okay. Students have...right to free...
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Even though Brownback apologised, this was still a thing that happened. What assurance do we have that something like...
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I hope she doesn’t end up having to write that letter. She did nothing wrong, using her personal twitter to state a...
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So glad she decided not to write it. Neither the principal nor the governor has any right to demand it of her.
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Row row fight the powah
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I’m pretty sure free speech
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