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Teacher suspended after stopping anti-gay talk
- 11-17-2010
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NPR
High school economics teacher Jay McDowell says he didn't like where the discussion was going after a student told his classmates he didn't "accept gays,'' so McDowell kicked the boy out of class for a day. In return, the teacher was kicked out of Howell High School in Michigan for a day — suspended without pay for violating the student's free speech rights. The incident has sparked intense debate in Howell, about 45 miles northwest of Detroit, over defending civil rights without trampling the U.S. Constitution's right to free speech. It's gained far wider attention since a local newspaper released video of a 14-year-old gay student from another city defending McDowell at a Howell school board meeting. (more…)
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