Shame Misplaced After Kemp Protest
Re “School Punishes Students for Role in Kemp Rally,” Oct. 3.
Shame on Jack Kemp for permitting the birthday homecoming celebration in honor of Mrs. Kemp to be used as a political rally.
Shame on Fillmore High Principal Lynn Johnson for suspending the protesting students for exercising their right of freedom of speech.
Shame on shopkeeper Jesse Segovia for saying the students were wrong to protest and that protesting doesn’t get anything done. Read your American history, Mr. Segovia. It was protesters who started the American Revolution. And it was another group of protesting students who were instrumental in bringing American involvement in the Vietnam War to an end.
And shame on the parents of the suspended students if they fail to bring suit against the Fillmore School Board for punishing the protesting students. In essence, the students are being denied their civil rights.
DONNA E. DOLAN
Ojai
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