Student suspended for handing out climate change flyers.

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Most high school students will have to skip school to attend The Global Youth Climate Strike. I hope they do. I sure would.

South Broward High School senior Elijah Ruby had been handing out flyers advertising a climate change protest when a school administrator told him he would be suspended from campus for a day and barred from attending prom and other special class events.

“I feel disappointed because those are the sort of things you remember for a long time,” said Ruby, 17. “You remember going with your girlfriend to prom.”

The flyers contained information about the upcoming Global Youth Climate Strike in Broward County on Sept. 20, part of a worldwide series of student strikes that day. The Broward protest will occur in front of the Broward County School Board building in Fort Lauderdale.

Ruby said he had previously posted flyers that had been removed by the school and was warned against handing out flyers, but that no one had told him he risked suspension by distributing them....

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article235272082.html

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

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2. He should have handed out bibles instead

Yes, that was sarcasm

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3. #ClimateStrike in Australia - Biggest protests since the Iraq War

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212478833

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