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The President Is A Terrorist

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Petitioner Frederick Flynt, a 12th grade student residing in rural South Carolina attends Liberty High School. This rural school of 400 students knows Flynt as someone willing to test school policy at his own sacrifice. Describing himself as a “button-pushing anarchist-ish civil libertarian,” Flynt is occasionally getting into trouble with school authorities for furthering his civic engagement with school policy and politics. His keenness for politics and constitutional school policies has led him again into more trouble. During Flynt’s senior year, he was suspended from school for actions deemed in violation of school policy. His suspension was received after wearing a shirt to school with the writing, “the president is a terrorist.” Using their judgment and guidance from the Liberty High School’s dress code, school administrators suspended Flynt for two days after he refused to remove the shirt. School administrators believed that because his shirt said the president was a terrorist the education mission they aimed to promote would be disturbed and that his shirt would promote discrimination or racism. No evidence suggests that a disturbance occurred amongst his peers or faculty as a result of his actions. While serving his first suspension Flynt constructed and attached a 4’x4’ sign that read “Obamerrist” to the back of his car. When he returned to school with the sign attached to his car school officials asked him to remove the sign or remove his car from the school

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