Governor, school district offended by 18-year-old's cranky tweet

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Kansas high school student Emma Sullivan took a field trip to see Governor Sam Brownback speak. She didn't like what he had to say, and tweeted about what she wished she could do: "just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot." Clearly, this kind of insubordination could not stand. Someone from Brownback's office sent the tweet to someone from the Shawnee Mission School District who sent it to Sullivan's principal, who has demanded that Sullivan write the governor an apology. (Via Chad Manspeaker)
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I'm from Kansas and I'm also friends with Mr. Manspeaker who is mentioned at the end of the quote above.

I think it's silly that the school forced this girl to apologize and threaten academic punishment.
 
bluediamond said:
No person does not need to be force into apologize because its not a real.
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Although I agree with you, the school did have the right to ask her to apologize.
If she has said this outside of school, that may be a different story.
I don't think it's right by any means, just saying that the school had the right to request this from the girl.
 
Brownback apologizes for tweet flap
Gov. Sam Brownback apologized Monday for his office's reaction to a Kansas high school senior's disparaging tweet about the Republican during a visit to the Statehouse.

The governor's staff complained about a post by Emma Sullivan, 18, and the student quickly landed in hot water with administrators at Shawnee Mission East High School.

The story of Sullivan's commentary about Brownback quickly sparked national debate after she went public with distress at being criticized by staff of a Kansas politician who served more than 15 years in elective office in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate before elected governor in 2010.
She decided to reject her principal's edict to send a written apology to the governor.

However, on Monday, it was Brownback issuing a statement attempting to put an end to the media circus.
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Interesting! :)

Lol, cjonline's dirty word filter apparently is overambitious: It asterisked out the "****" letter sequences in the words "asserted" and "embarassment". ;)
 
Not anymore, it was right in the main text.

Perhaps it was a banner ad that modified the main text ... I retried a couple of times, but the asterisks didn't come up again.
 
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