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Epping principal issues apology after student was told to cover Trump shirt

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Posted By: NHChemist, 4/13/2019 12:58:21 PM

The principal of Epping High School has apologized after a freshman was told to cover up her “Make America Great Again” Trump T-shirt earlier this week during the school’s America Day. In a letter addressed to the school community on Friday, Brian Ernest admitted his mistake when Ciretta MacKenzie was told to cover her shirt. Ernest said he met with Ciretta’s family and offered his apologies. “We have begun to draft a plan to move forward to promote civil discourse and diversity in our schools. In retrospect, I want to fully acknowledge my error in judgement (sic) and sincerely apologize

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I´ll believe the civil discourse when I see it.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Smart11344 4/13/2019 1:06:51 PM (No. 32831)
Far too many teachers and administrators are doing their best to brain wash our children with their leftist crap.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: dwa 4/13/2019 1:08:17 PM (No. 32826)
Interesting how the Left can do whatever they want, then make fake apology afterward and all is supposed to be forgotten. But, they were still able to get what they wanted, votes to count, negative media, a teen bullied etc.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Hobbitmom 4/13/2019 1:14:31 PM (No. 32824)
FTA ~ "..´and sincerely apologize if my actions were misinterpreted and offended anyone. That was never my intention,´ he wrote."

First, the non-apology apology. "If my actions ," etc. The fact that it was never his intention doesn´t exonerate him. He´s a principal, for God´s sake. He was wrong, and probably proud of it, until he was called on it. Man up, you weasel.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: emmajustin 4/13/2019 1:17:20 PM (No. 32829)
Sue the school for violating her rights--hopefully the school will pass the litigation costs on to the purposeful dummy. He meant it and is only apologizing because it caused a scandal and went national. He will do it again and will likely make the girl´s school time a misery.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: TLCary 4/13/2019 1:22:37 PM (No. 32823)
Now he is “woke”... Someone educated the educator about previous episodes and he decided he liked his job. “We”? So he is part of the group that will design a plan to reign in political bigots, specifically: himself? That’s how this works?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: SALady 4/13/2019 1:22:40 PM (No. 32819)
You know the school district administration told him "do a faux apology or the retarded redneck Trump supporters are going to bring their assault rifles up and kill everyone!!!!" And they probably have drank so much of the lie-beral Kool-Aid that they actually mean it!!!

If there aren´t fines and firings for this type of pure lie-beral evil, along with loud condemnations from parents, this type of evil behavior is just going to continue!!!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: BirdsNest 4/13/2019 1:27:28 PM (No. 32834)
He embarrassed the student, the damage is done. There should be something more than a lame apology.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: govlawyer 4/13/2019 1:30:03 PM (No. 32828)
In not wanting anyone to feel uncomfortable over the young lady wearing the shirt, didn´t he succeed in making HER feel uncomfortable wearing it (or doesn´t she count)?
What a maroon....and I´ll wager this nimrod has a doctorate in education!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JoniTx 4/13/2019 1:32:28 PM (No. 32835)
President Trump should go to Epping High School....have a friendly visit and prove that America is Great!......Congratulate the young lady!.....LOL...Can you imagine the reaction??!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: govlawyer 4/13/2019 1:32:30 PM (No. 32818)
I stand corrected....he´s a gym teacher who became a principal with a Masters.....
Overpaid if you ask me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: hotcorner 4/13/2019 1:32:43 PM (No. 32813)
Make him an example. Fire him. That will stop it. Only that will stop it. Free speech is integral to our country.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MainelySane 4/13/2019 1:46:47 PM (No. 32830)
He promotes free thinking.. how about "critical thinking" skills? How can he be a "principal teacher"?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: franq 4/13/2019 1:59:28 PM (No. 32832)
These tolerant liberals make me sick.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: janjan 4/13/2019 2:05:16 PM (No. 32808)
It is not his role to decide whether a President is controversial or not. Trump is controversial to liberals. Obama was a phony, arrogant left wing extremist and was very controversial. No student wearing an Obama shirt would ever have been challenged.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: LadyChurchillUSA 4/13/2019 2:14:54 PM (No. 32821)
Sorry, apology not accepted. A principal who doesn´t understand the most basic of our rights has no business running a school. He needs to be fired and immediately. There is no room for this kind of small mind in a school or a classroom.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: anniebc 4/13/2019 2:28:45 PM (No. 32825)
Apology accepted when heads role, fines are paid, and reeducation takes place.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: sunnyday 4/13/2019 2:33:57 PM (No. 32817)
Should have never happened. Covering his butt.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: bad-hair 4/13/2019 2:43:38 PM (No. 32816)
Pretty close. When I was in high school we ALMOST called him the epping principal.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Jethro bo 4/13/2019 2:52:02 PM (No. 32833)
What diversity? What tolerance? He clearly suports one polticalview and is intolerant of any other political view.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: DVC 4/13/2019 3:15:15 PM (No. 32815)
Not good enough.

Mr. Ernest needs to be fired, absolutely NO excuse for this, and an apology is NOT good enough to convince other principals not to try this same BS.

There need to be real consequences for stomping on people´s rights for political reasons.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Starboard_side 4/13/2019 3:22:13 PM (No. 32809)
The whole agenda is to not allow people to feel it´s okay to see the name Trump, or the slogan, MAGA.

They presume people will become accustomed and they will have harder time convincing their sheeple to follow them.

Trump, like a CEO, wants to fix things, and that´s a problem for Democrats.

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Reply 22 - Posted by: starboard 4/13/2019 3:58:38 PM (No. 32810)
Apologies are worthless anymore. He should be fined at least $1000.00. Hitting them in the wallet works much better.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: IowaMarinesDad 4/13/2019 4:04:54 PM (No. 32820)
No apologies should be accepted. There should be termination from their job with loss of all accrued benefits and then criminal prosecution. Her first amendment rights were violated. There needs to be repercussions for that.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: mc squared 4/13/2019 4:25:58 PM (No. 32811)
It´s a weasel worded non-apology: (I) ´sincerely apologize if my actions were misinterpreted and offended anyone.´ he wrote.
We didn´t misinterpret anything. Doesn´t anyone in the teaching industry read what´s been happening to teachers who pull this shite? It´s right up there with teachers bedding their students.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: columba 4/13/2019 5:09:55 PM (No. 32812)
The principal should be sentenced to wearing a Trump supporter shirt for a day.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Nevadadad46 4/13/2019 6:06:17 PM (No. 32807)
Oh, the old "apology" ply. No responsibility, no punishment for this absurdly stupid and cruel act on the part of the Princi´pal´...leftist st head. Just, "Oops! My bad!- Can´t we all just get along now?"

He needs to get his butt sacked as a lesson to other stupid lefty idiots trying to destroy kid´s lives.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Chuzzles 4/13/2019 6:26:09 PM (No. 32827)
Too little too late. The damage has already been done. When is the Left in academia going to learn? Probably never.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Urgent Fury 4/13/2019 7:18:18 PM (No. 32837)
Here´s the thing. If he truly believed in tolerance, this never would have happened. So he´s an Epping liar.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: JL80863 4/13/2019 11:27:31 PM (No. 32814)
Great idea #27. I would add a MAGA cap too.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: DVC 4/14/2019 2:19:15 PM (No. 32806)
He did NOT apologize, that was a BS statement.

He needs to either have a couple of weeks off, say 3 weeks without pay, or be fired. There needs to be real penalties for this serious intimidation for political reasons by a person in authority.

Not acceptable, and this was not an apology.
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