the teacher responded to her exercising her free speech by telling her "you enjoy the freedoms in this country, if you don't like it you should go back to your country" pretty shitty reaction. the school district put out a very strongly worded memo that they DON'T tolerate this kind of treatment of students, and didn't do anything other than the statement.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

It's absolutely abhorrent behavior. The absolute most I would expect out of the teacher is a friendly confirmation that the student wasn't sitting because they just zoned out. Even that kinda seems like a waste of time.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It’s also just not realistic in the US right now. Some students are not American and don’t want to be, which is normal. Why should they (especially, but honestly anyone) be expected to pledge allegiance to a country that isn’t and won’t be theirs?

As for the second part - I could maybe have pushed my dad to move house when I was in school, if I’d pushed incessantly and had a very good reason, but I could not have actually had an impact on what country we lived in. I can’t imagine many high schoolers do.