Long story short: High school class goes to the Kansas capitol. Girl tweets that she met the governor and that he "sucks" and is a bad governor. Governor's office sees the tweet and contacts the school. Girl gets lambasted by the principal and is told she has to write an apology. She refuses.

 

Discuss.

To be sure, is she in trouble over the nature of her tweet or is it because she was tweeting during a school function?

To be sure, is she in trouble over the nature of her tweet or is it because she was tweeting during a school function?

 

The combo.

The combo.

With the little information provided I'd say one I'm OK with and the other I'm with the girl. You have a link?

With the little information provided I'd say one I'm OK with and the other I'm with the girl. You have a link?

 

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_kansas/johnson_county/tweet-gets-shawnee-mission-east-student-in-trouble

I would accept whatever punishment is in the handbook for tweeting during school but I would not write any kind of apology.

Should get punished for tweeting during school, but it's a free country to verbalize one's disdain for any powers-that-be. The manner in which she verbalized those feelings was unbecoming IMO, but she should not be forced to apologize.

Should get punished for tweeting during school, but it's a free country to verbalize one's disdain for any powers-that-be. The manner in which she verbalized those feelings was unbecoming IMO, but she should not be forced to apologize.

 

Agreed.

It would be refreshing if the girls parents would step up

And make her apologize. Obviously the governor took time away from his day she should show a little more respect.

I would accept whatever punishment is in the handbook for tweeting during school but I would not write any kind of apology.

I agree with this.

 

The question I have is why on earth would the Governor respond to a high schooler's tweet in the first place?

I agree with this.

 

The question I have is why on earth would the Governor respond to a high schooler's tweet in the first place?

 

Sounds like he was Tweeting during work too. :lol:

I agree with the comment about the parents handling this as an education moment. It's called class.... and it's a lesson that is not taught nearly enough in today's say/tweet/fb/topix whatever about whoever. The school is to teach what students can do. Parents should be teaching kids what they should or shouldn't do.

I agree with the comment about the parents handling this as an education moment. It's called class.... and it's a lesson that is not taught nearly enough in today's say/tweet/fb/topix whatever about whoever. The school is to teach what students can do. Parents should be teaching kids what they should or shouldn't do.

 

Wouldn't the only lesson the kid would learn is that if you talk about our government then you will be censored? If this is a high school aged kid they most likely won't take having to give an apology to the governor as a learning lesson about class. I know that's how I would take it if I was in my high school aged years. Don't talk about the government in an unflattering way or they will censor you. And knowing me and my smart aleck ways my next tweet would be after school comparing our government to a dictatorship and would question when I lost my rights.

 

 

I agree with Hammer's post.

I think the girl should write the apology and include that she didn't know she would be punished for utilizing her freedom of speech.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/us/kansas-high-schooler-tweet/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

 

"I don't think I should write the letter, and I don't think it would be the best move for me," Emma Sullivan, 18, said late Sunday night. "At this time, I do not think an apology would be a sincere thing for me to do."

 

Sullivan said her parents and many of her peers support her decision.