I wonder if, after they refused to throw, they could have thrown out a Pro-Hamas rant and they got a full ride to Columbia?
Actually, they were punished for their protest. The consequence of their protest is that they lost.Quote:
The girls were, in fact, able to have their protest. They are now facing the consequences of that decision.
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Judge Thomas A. Bedell has granted a preliminary injunction, allowing the four students who sued the Harrison County Board of Education to continue playing after their protest on April 18th.
The ruling came after more than three hours of testimony from school officials, a parent, and two of the five girls who participated in the protest.
Judge Bedell addressed the court to specify this hearing was not addressing the issue of transgender athletes in sports. Instead, it was focused on whether there was a violation of due process and if the school prohibited free speech.
Much of the plaintiffs' case hinged on whether an unwritten rule could be enforced. According to Lincoln Middle School Track Coach Dawn Riestenberg, she adopted the "scratch rule" four years ago, one year after taking on coaching the team.
According to Riestenberg, if a student opted out of participating in an event voluntarily, they wouldn't be allowed to compete in that same event at the next meet. Importantly, that rule was never written down, nor given to the student athletes in writing.
Instead, Riestenberg testified that she tells the student athletes of her scratch rule at the beginning of the season. The two students testifying disputed that claim.
A lawyer with the Harrison County Board of Education claimed that the students' free speech rights were not infringed upon by following the scratch rule. Multiple people testified that there were other forms of protesting the issue of transgender athletes in sports throughout the season.
Riestenberg, LMS Principal Lori Scott, and a student all testified that multiple students wore "SWS" shirts -- short for "save women's sports" -- at meets and were not reprimanded. They only reason, the BOE's lawyer argued, that the students were not allowed to participate in the next meet was because they violated their coach's scratch rule.
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this suspension had nothing to do with the protest, it was simply violating a team rule.
May be - but school boards (even in red counties) tend to be populated by activists.Quote:
This is shocking because that's a very red county in West Virginia.
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This is shocking because that's a very red county in West Virginia.
Urban Ag said:Just walk up and scratch every throw or simply drop the shot put a foot outside the ring, in future competitionsbmks270 said:
I guess they are forbidden to forfeit, so the next move will be simply put in low effort.