{"article":{"id":12599,"heading":"Student Suspended for Wearing Clothes","author":"FluxRostrum","created":"2001-11-03 07:43:04","modified":"2015-12-18 10:15:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:15:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Judge Rules on Student Anarchy Club <br>  <br> By MICHELLE SAXTON, Associated Press Writer  <br><br> CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A judge ruled Thursday that a 15-year-old sophomore cannot form an anarchy club or wear T-shirts opposing the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan (news - web sites) because it would disrupt school.  <br><br> Katie Sierra was suspended from Sissonville High School for three days for promoting the club. She was also told she could not wear T-shirts with messages such as: ``When I saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered sense of national security. God Bless America.''  <br><br> In a complaint filed with her mother, Sierra argued her right to free speech was being denied.  <br><br> Circuit Court Judge James Stucky agreed that free speech is ``sacred'' but he found that such rights are ``tempered by the limitations that they ... not disrupt the educational process.''  <br><br> Sierra said she'll pursue the dispute.  <br><br> ``I don't want war. I'm not for Afghanistan,'' Sierra said. ``I think that what we're doing to them is just as bad as what they did to us, and I think it needs to be stopped.''  <br><br> James Withrow, lawyer for the Kanawha County Board of Education, argued that an anarchy club was inappropriate because students ``do not feel that their school is a safe place anymore.''  <br><br> ``Anarchy is the antithesis of what we believe should be in schools,'' Withrow said.  <br><br> Sierra's attorney, Roger Forman, said she is ``being punished for expressing her opinion.''  <br>  <br> ============================================== <br><br> Nominate Katie Sierra <br>  <br> for Sissonville High Student of the Month @ <br>  <br> <a href=\"mailto:dagnew@access.k12.wv.us\">dagnew@access.k12.wv.us<\/a> <br><br> Go Local for discussion @ <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/cgi-bin\/wwwthreads\/showflat.pl?Cat=&amp;Board=general&amp;Number=11656&amp;page=0&amp;view=collapsed&amp;sb=5\">http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/cgi-bin\/wwwthreads\/showflat.pl?Cat=&amp;Board=general&amp;Number=11656&amp;page=0&amp;view=collapsed&amp;sb=5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"Earth","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"reprinted from the AP wire\r\nA judge ruled Thursday that a 15-year-old sophomore cannot form an anarchy club or wear T-shirts opposing the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/katie1.jpg","filesize":"15.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/11\/12599.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/katie1.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/katie1.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}