If I’m to believe the School Board this guy sounds like a perv.
And a FEDERAL jury rendered this verdict ?
What were they smoking ?
The School Board needs to pursue an appeal for a reversal of that verdict/”award”
The federal government has already banned prayer and the Bible from schools, so why shouldn’t a school have the right to ban a “journalist” from the school especially if he has created a problem or poses a real or perceived threat to the faculty or student-body ??
And these jurors should not ***** & moan when they get their new tax bill and see what “performing their civic duty” cost the township !
It looks like the jury said it was the right verdict. They had ALL the facts in the case. Also, the school board is not the Federal government so it seems to go with one not having quite the same pull as the other. Like a school board never made bad decisions? Sounds like they did not like the paper’s reports on them and they got high and mighty.
Why should any reporter have the “right” be on school grounds in the first place? If anything, they may have the right to speak with school administrators about an issue. Otherwise, they don’t belong there without an escort.
This guy sounds like he was a pain in the a_ss so the board treated him accordingly. If he was genuinely interested in covering school issues he should have established rapport with the board, not antagonize it. This certainly didn’t deserve a monetary award. I doubt he could prove any damages. Not only did the court stick the verdict in the face of the school board, it shoved it up its a_ss for good measure.
Why should a reporter have the “right” to be on school grounds?
1. That is where school board meetings are held.
2. That is where sporting events are held.
3. Numerous other newsworthy events involving students and faculty are held there.
Newspapers routinely report on these things. It’s hard to do if you can’t attend. You can’t ban the press just because you don’t like their opinion.
It sounds like the principal made an unsupported accusation against the reporter for trying to take pictures of students. Courts determine whether such accusations have merit. Obviously, in this case, the jury decided it didn’t.
Freedom, you have it backwords. I am from a small Virginia county and the local government and School Board are like dictators. They meet behind closed doors and punish you if you disagree. They did not like what he had to say so
they tried to shut him up. Thats not freedom of speach.
Isn’t the school private property? Isn’t the decision of who is allowed on campus up to the school board? If that individual was banned from the school, couldn’t the newspaper send another reporter to get the story? Or could a school oficial meet with the reporter off campus? Seems like there could be other options in obtaining the story.
school board disliked some of his articles? um… um… so when some of your teachers make remarks that you don’t like are you going to ban them from teaching and entering the school? photographers, you have many around, some probably include yearbook photographers, security camera’s, parent photographers, sports photographers and many others. i think it was just an excuse to use that he was hiding taking photo’s. freedom of speech! our forefathers fought for this, our current military are fighting and defending this as just one of many freedoms we have. just because we don’t like someone’s opinion, we might not want them on our private property, but this is public property. if you ban one, then you’d have to ban all!
Its been my personal expierence that school systems tend to view themselfs as above the law. My son when he was a freshman was assualted in a high school by a janitor. The school went into protective mode and covered it up, changed the facts. They suspended him for assualt on a school employee. When i filed the forms for a due process hearing, they filed a suit against my son, my wife and I. When we won the right to a hearing they appealed to the 6th circuit court of appeals. Then they setteled achieveing the goal, it stayed covered up.
Freedom, the federal government has NOT banned prayer or the Bible from schools. Anyone who says prayer is illegal is lying or stupid, or both. State-coerced prayer is illegal, not prayer.
I was thinking that as well, M&M. This article does not tell us anything we need to know to form an opinion on the verdict. Of course wudchcuck weighed in with his usual stupidity
um.. so anyone else’s comments that you don’t agree with is stupid? just because someone might think differently does not mean it’s a wrong thought or stupid. how many times do you listen to political campaigns and wonder how could they say such things – most of their lines are a cut and paste, thinking that the general public will not catch it. remember that if someone is thinking on a different side of the tracks does not necessarily mean he’s stupid nor does it mean he’s right or wrong, just a different opinion.
If I’m to believe the School Board this guy sounds like a perv.
And a FEDERAL jury rendered this verdict ?
What were they smoking ?
The School Board needs to pursue an appeal for a reversal of that verdict/”award”
The federal government has already banned prayer and the Bible from schools, so why shouldn’t a school have the right to ban a “journalist” from the school especially if he has created a problem or poses a real or perceived threat to the faculty or student-body ??
And these jurors should not ***** & moan when they get their new tax bill and see what “performing their civic duty” cost the township !
It looks like the jury said it was the right verdict. They had ALL the facts in the case. Also, the school board is not the Federal government so it seems to go with one not having quite the same pull as the other. Like a school board never made bad decisions? Sounds like they did not like the paper’s reports on them and they got high and mighty.
Why should any reporter have the “right” be on school grounds in the first place? If anything, they may have the right to speak with school administrators about an issue. Otherwise, they don’t belong there without an escort.
This guy sounds like he was a pain in the a_ss so the board treated him accordingly. If he was genuinely interested in covering school issues he should have established rapport with the board, not antagonize it. This certainly didn’t deserve a monetary award. I doubt he could prove any damages. Not only did the court stick the verdict in the face of the school board, it shoved it up its a_ss for good measure.
… how anyone could even begin to decide on whether this was “right” or “wrong” based on this incredibly brief, bare bones article.
Why should a reporter have the “right” to be on school grounds?
1. That is where school board meetings are held.
2. That is where sporting events are held.
3. Numerous other newsworthy events involving students and faculty are held there.
Newspapers routinely report on these things. It’s hard to do if you can’t attend. You can’t ban the press just because you don’t like their opinion.
It sounds like the principal made an unsupported accusation against the reporter for trying to take pictures of students. Courts determine whether such accusations have merit. Obviously, in this case, the jury decided it didn’t.
Imagine the President did not like an article or news story publish about him. Is that reason to ban a reporter from the press room?
Don’t condemn the jury without knowing the facts.
Freedom, you have it backwords. I am from a small Virginia county and the local government and School Board are like dictators. They meet behind closed doors and punish you if you disagree. They did not like what he had to say so
they tried to shut him up. Thats not freedom of speach.
Isn’t the school private property? Isn’t the decision of who is allowed on campus up to the school board? If that individual was banned from the school, couldn’t the newspaper send another reporter to get the story? Or could a school oficial meet with the reporter off campus? Seems like there could be other options in obtaining the story.
Actually, schools are public property.
school board disliked some of his articles? um… um… so when some of your teachers make remarks that you don’t like are you going to ban them from teaching and entering the school? photographers, you have many around, some probably include yearbook photographers, security camera’s, parent photographers, sports photographers and many others. i think it was just an excuse to use that he was hiding taking photo’s. freedom of speech! our forefathers fought for this, our current military are fighting and defending this as just one of many freedoms we have. just because we don’t like someone’s opinion, we might not want them on our private property, but this is public property. if you ban one, then you’d have to ban all!
Its been my personal expierence that school systems tend to view themselfs as above the law. My son when he was a freshman was assualted in a high school by a janitor. The school went into protective mode and covered it up, changed the facts. They suspended him for assualt on a school employee. When i filed the forms for a due process hearing, they filed a suit against my son, my wife and I. When we won the right to a hearing they appealed to the 6th circuit court of appeals. Then they setteled achieveing the goal, it stayed covered up.
Freedom, the federal government has NOT banned prayer or the Bible from schools. Anyone who says prayer is illegal is lying or stupid, or both. State-coerced prayer is illegal, not prayer.
I was thinking that as well, M&M. This article does not tell us anything we need to know to form an opinion on the verdict. Of course wudchcuck weighed in with his usual stupidity
um.. so anyone else’s comments that you don’t agree with is stupid? just because someone might think differently does not mean it’s a wrong thought or stupid. how many times do you listen to political campaigns and wonder how could they say such things – most of their lines are a cut and paste, thinking that the general public will not catch it. remember that if someone is thinking on a different side of the tracks does not necessarily mean he’s stupid nor does it mean he’s right or wrong, just a different opinion.
True, but when it’s wudcuck it’s stupidity
well, then if you can remember, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck? afterall, you said it was STUPID!