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posted by martyb on Sunday August 09 2020, @12:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the freedumbs? dept.

Pupils who shared photos of packed corridor of maskless Georgia students suspended:

At least two high school students in Georgia have allegedly been suspended after sharing a video of school hallway crowded with largely maskless students, according to reports.

North Paulding High School in Dallas went viral after it reopened on Monday when two students shared photos of the school corridors with apparently no social distancing and barely any wearing masks.

Paulding County Schools Superintendent Brian Otott reportedly released a statement saying that the images were taken out of context, that masks were a personal choice for students and reopening was in line with Georgia Department of Education's health recommendations.

[...] "Students are in this hallway environment for just a brief period as they move to their next class. ... There is no question that the photo does not look good," Mr Otott said according to CNN.

"Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them."

Following the alleged suspension 15-year-old Hannah Watters who posted one of the photos and a video on Twitter told Buzzfeed News she received a five-day, out-of-school suspension for posting one photo and one video on Twitter.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:33PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:33PM (#1033822)

    and, of course, just to make my point further, my post was marked off topic to show how intolerant atheists are of my comment. Nevermind the fact that my comment was intended to point out that another comment was off topic because I get tired of the same lie being repeated over in off topic threads because atheists insist that the only way to convince people that their lie is really true is to keep on repeating it so many times.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @04:47PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @04:47PM (#1033874)

    That's because to anybody with a brain, species evolution or "universal common descent" or how ever you call it is as obvious as throwing a ball in the air and expecting it to come down. Well, I mean, there is some controversy over general relativity and dark matter. Maybe we should adopt the intelligent falling theory to explain the ball's trajectory, and that will also make Gaaark happy by eliminating unobserved mass/dark matter.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @05:46PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @05:46PM (#1033906)

      If that were really true you wouldn't be so eager to silence your critics. You silence your critics because you are insecure about your beliefs.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @11:37PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @11:37PM (#1034073)

        No, you silence critics because they aren't contributing anything but confusion while trying to force their ideas to be afforded equal weight. If they were actually doing valid work, that would be different, but it's just antiscience bs, the same sort that antivaxers use and it causes problems.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @01:56AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @01:56AM (#1034137)

          Criticism only causes problems because you know your viewpoint is absolute garbage.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @02:01AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @02:01AM (#1034139)

          "trying to force their ideas to be afforded equal weight."

          So you acknowledge that you want to dishonestly force your ideas to have more weight instead of allowing both ideas to be fairly presented and allow the students to decide for themselves which idea makes the most sense and carry the most weight. Again, it's because you are insecure about your views.

          The problem is you want to force your indoctrination with MY taxpayer dollars.

          Like I said I rightly interpret this as you being insecure about your garbage beliefs.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @06:54PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @06:54PM (#1033948)

    my post was marked off topic to show how intolerant atheists are of my comment.

    No, it was marked off topic because neither religion nor the lack thereof are at all relevant to wearing masks in schools, and such discussion tends to blows up in to a further off topic mess that nobody wants to read. Regardless of their beliefs on such matters.

    As for repeating lies, I've never seen atheists gather together in large groups and repeatedly sing songs about atheism. I've never seen atheists spend day after day mulling through some poetic book of atheism and then shoving it in the face of anyone who does not believe likewise. I've never seen atheists repeatedly pound podiums while emphatically demanding people not worship sky beings. No, those are mostly things that magic sky fairy worshipers do to reinforce their incorrect beliefs.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:04PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:04PM (#1033956)

      Religious gatherings are privately funded by those that volunteer to fund them. You are not forced to attend religious gatherings and to fund them with your private money.

      Public schools are partly funded by MY taxpayer money. As such I should have some say in what gets taught and I want a more balanced curriculum. Just because you are too insecure for a more balanced curriculum should not be MY problem.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:25PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @09:25PM (#1034020)

        Religious gatherings are privately funded by those that volunteer to fund them. You are not forced to attend religious gatherings and to fund them with your private money.

        I dare you to go to your church and say that exact phrase to anyone under 18 years old or not yet financially able to get away from their parents. While rubbing their asses from the sunday raping, they will likely tell you you are full of crap.

        insecure insecure insecure insecure insecure

        You keep repeating that. Perhaps you are insecure about your beliefs? :P

        More balanced curriculum? I guess you mean teaching religion in schools?

        Just make sure each book starts with a disclaimer like some Alabama science books:

        Disclaimer: This book contains material on religion. Religion is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, critically considered, and laughed at really hard.

        BTW, nobody is specifically trying to shut you up. We are just telling you you are wrong. And stupid. And need mental help. And most people don't waste time responding to idiots and trolls.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @10:17PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @10:17PM (#1034048)

          "I dare you to go to your church and say that exact phrase to anyone under 18 years old or not yet financially able to get away from their parents. While rubbing their asses from the sunday raping, they will likely tell you you are full of crap."

          I don't think most parents force their children to believe one thing or another and wouldn't say that they aren't allowed to do other research. Not that there aren't situations where this isn't true but contrary to what you say I don't think it's the norm. but if parents want to use their private money to introduce their children to a specific way of thinking it's their money. Those students will still learn about your viewpoints from school and have the opportunity to explore other viewpoints.

          OTOH trying to use MY public money to teach students only your viewpoints in an unbalanced manner is a sign of insecurity and weakness. Fund your own beliefs only using your own private money if you believe in them so strongly. Don't force me to fund them for you. I expect schools that use my money to be more balanced.

          "BTW, nobody is specifically trying to shut you up. We are just telling you you are wrong. And stupid. And need mental help. And most people don't waste time responding to idiots and trolls. "

          Because anyone that disagrees with you is automatically wrong and stupid by virtue of the fact that they disagree with you and hence they must be shut up.

          "You keep repeating that. Perhaps you are insecure about your beliefs? :P"

          I repeated it in response to someone who bashed religion out of context because I keep seeing it over and over here on Soylent news and I always let it go. and I continued the discussion within the context of the off topic discussion that this other individual started. Start a specific thread on the subject but don't bring the bashing into every unrelated subject.

          Either you are too stupid to see that or you are purposely being disingenuous. I believe it's the latter. I shouldn't really have to point this out but for the sake of your intentional retardedness I will do it anyways.

          • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 12 2020, @06:38PM

            by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 12 2020, @06:38PM (#1035702)

            "I dare you to go to your church and say that exact phrase to anyone under 18 years old or not yet financially able to get away from their parents. While rubbing their asses from the sunday raping, they will likely tell you you are full of crap."

            I don't think most parents force their children to believe one thing or another

            Now I'm *really* wondering what makes you qualified to comment on this topic--I daresay the vast majority of religious parents are going to raise their children in it. Some minor concept of "wanting to make sure their children's souls are safe" or somesuch. I'm sure it's inconsequential.

            wouldn't say that they aren't allowed to do other research

            Sure, as long as you come to the "right" conclusion.

            Source: was raised religious myself, and my parents still won't leave it alone. I'm 31 now.

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            OTOH trying to use MY public money to teach students only your viewpoints in an unbalanced manner is

            ...sort of minorly enshrined in the concept of "separation of church and state," when we're talking about public schools here.

            You sound like the sort of person who only sees Pascal's Wager [wikipedia.org] as a binary choice ("are you a Christian or not"), instead of the hundred-way split it really is. So you'd be okay with students being taught a variety of religions, right? We're just making sure even more people's viewpoints aren't being left out.

            For public schools, either teach no religions, or all (for sufficiently abused definitions of "all") of them. Somehow I bet you're not okay with either of those ideas.

            Because anyone that disagrees with you is automatically wrong and stupid by virtue of the fact that they disagree with you

            Rolling my eyes so hard right now. Nobody is deleting your posts, or banning you from the site. Take your persecution complex and grow up.

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            "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @07:07PM (#1033957)

      "No, it was marked off topic because neither religion nor the lack thereof are at all relevant to wearing masks in schools"

      Exactly what my point was. I wasn't the one that brought up religion, I was responding to someone else that brought up the subject unnecessarily. But my post was the one marked off topic because atheists are too insecure to have any tolerance for dissent. To be clear I absolutely see this as a sign of weakness on their part.