Monday, October 05, 2020

High Schooler Claims She Was Removed from Zoom Class over Trump Flag


A student at Massabesic High School in Waterboro, Maine, says she was removed from a Zoom class on Thursday over a Trump flag that was displayed on the wall behind her. Massabesic High School student Mollie Woodbury says that she was kicked out of her math class’s Zoom session due to a flag in support of President Donald Trump that was hanging on the wall behind where she does her school work, according to a report by WKYC. The student claims that her math teacher had asked her to remove the Trump flag. Woodbury said that she told her teacher that the flag was in her bedroom and was not offensive and refused to remove it from the wall. Woodbury then received a notification informing her that she had been removed from the virtual class by the meeting host. "I kinda feel like my right to have my own opinion was taken away by her,” said Woodbury of her teacher. “She’s losing her right to learn, it was just uncalled for,” reacted Woodbury’s mother, Amanda Morrison, who added that she is proud of her daughter for recently getting interested in politics due to a civics and government class at school...MORE

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