{"id":60774,"date":"2018-03-17T06:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T06:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60774"},"modified":"2018-03-17T06:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T06:34:01","slug":"student-suspended-staying-class-not-walking-heres-actually-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/student-suspended-staying-class-not-walking-heres-actually-happened.html","title":{"rendered":"A student was suspended after staying in class and not walking out. Here’s what actually happened."},"content":{"rendered":"

A student was suspended after staying in class and not walking out. Here’s what actually happened.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

An Ohio high school student has found himself at the center of political controversy after an online post about his suspension for staying in class during the national student school walkout went viral.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that story isn\u2019t exactly true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacob Shoemaker, a senior at Hilliard Davidson High School in Hilliard, Ohio, was in fact suspended. But not because he chose not to join his classmates and the hundreds of thousands of students across the country who walked out of their classrooms to protest gun violence in the wake of a Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead. It was because he didn\u2019t go to a designated area of the school where the non-protesters were supposed to be, and instead stayed by himself in a classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

He stayed in the classroom, his father said, because he didn\u2019t want to choose a side.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was uncomfortable going to either location as he thought that going outside would most likely be politicizing a horrific event which he wanted no part of,\u201d his father, Scott Shoemaker, wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. \u201cBut staying inside would make him look disrespectful or insensitive to 17 innocent victims if it turned out to be more of a memorial service.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On social media, however, Shoemaker\u2019s now-viral suspension slip has been spun into a tale about how a liberal school system impeded the rights of a student who supported the Second Amendment, and misleading headlines painted a picture of Shoemaker being suspended solely on the grounds that he did not participate in the walkout.<\/span><\/p>\n

This comes at a time when the push for greater gun control has gained momentum, with the Florida shooting survivors set to lead a gun-control march on Washington on March 24. The response to these efforts have at times fallen along partisan lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Twitter, users shared Shoemaker\u2019s photos of the suspension slip with hashtags such as #GunControlNever and #LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder. One person tweeted, \u201cTo paraphrase George Orwell, some speech is more equal than others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Shoemaker\u2019s father said he has been inundated with so many supportive messages and threats from strangers who saw the viral posts that he is considering changing his number, he told the Independent in Massillon, Ohio. One of Shoemaker\u2019s father\u2019s old phone numbers, as well as the numbers of school district officials, have been circulating on social media. One Twitter user singled out Hilliard Davidson Principal Aaron Cookson for being a \u201c#BadEducator\u201d and \u201c#BadDad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The walkouts taking place at thousands of schools across the nation were viewed by some as politically divisive. Lawmakers such as New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) joined students in walking out of their classrooms and called for stricter gun legislation, chanting with students, \u201cGun control now.\u201d NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, on the other hand, told Fox News\u2019s \u201cFox & Friends\u201d that students were unjustly blaming the NRA and President Trump for the Florida school shooting instead of promoting safer schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the walkouts were for the most part peaceful, some conservatives pointed at a violent protest at Antioch High School in Nashville, where a group of students ripped the flag down from its pole and stomped on it, according to a video posted by Fox17. Police said students also jumped onto a patrol car, according to WZTV.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the night before his school\u2019s walkout, Shoemaker told his father that he wasn\u2019t sure about participating in the walkout, and that school officials were, in some respects, pressuring the students to pick a side.<\/span>
\n\u201cThe biggest problem, Dad, is that there shouldn\u2019t be politics in the classroom \u2026 I may just sit in my seat. As far as I\u2019m concerned, that\u2019s the least intrusive of the choices I\u2019ve been given,\u201d he told his father, according to the Independent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shoemaker added that he wasn\u2019t the only student who felt this way. School district officials said that \u201cwell under\u201d half of the student population participated in the walkout \u2014 but that the majority of students were \u201ccomfortable and confident\u201d in their decision not to participate.<\/span><\/p>\n

[ N.Y. governor says schools should drop any punishment given to kids who joined gun violence protests ]<\/span><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Jacob Shoemaker stayed sitting in his classroom, by himself, for about an hour. A scribbled note on the suspension slip he was handed read: \u201cStudent refused to follow instructions after being warned repeatedly by several administrators. Student not permitted on property 24 hours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe stayed in the classroom, where he was supposed to be in the first place,\u201d Shoemaker\u2019s father told the Independent. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of ironic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Shoemaker and his father could not be immediately reached by The Post.<\/span><\/p>\n

While school officials could not confirm whether Shoemaker was suspended for privacy reasons, Hilliard district spokeswoman Stacie Raterman confirmed to the Independent that the suspension slip in the photos circulating online was real.<\/span><\/p>\n

A statement on the district\u2019s website Friday said the walkout was not designed to be political and was not carried out that way. It was instead meant to memorialize the victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students had the option not to participate, but had to be supervised, as the walkout took place during school hours, district officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not leave students unattended in classrooms. This is the same practice our district implements when students opt out of other school programs or activities. We provide an alternative, supervised location,\u201d district officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is inaccurate and false information being circulated regarding both the intent of these gatherings and the events that took place during a specific activity at Davidson High School,\u201d district officials said. \u201cThese gatherings were not political events; they were respectful gatherings remembering the senseless loss of young people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/education\/wp\/2018\/03\/16\/a-student-was-suspended-after-staying-in-class-and-not-walking-out-heres-what-actually-happened\/?utm_term=.94ed98258447<\/span><\/p>\n

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