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NJ: University Punishes Student For Displaying President’s Picture

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New Jersey’s Stockton University, a 20-minute drive from Atlantic City, charged a student with disruptive behavior, discrimination, harassment, creating a “hostile environment,” causing “harm” and cyberbullying.
His violation? Using Trump’s image as his Zoom background during an online class July 1.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is representing doctoral student Robert Dailyda, warning the public university in a letter Friday that it has no legal authority to punish a student for sharing his political views, even if they offended his classmates. More

17 Comments on NJ: University Punishes Student For Displaying President’s Picture

  1. If he was brave enough to do what he has already done, I would encourage him to continue and trust to eventually collect a big settlement for a number of first amendment violations from the school.

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  2. When I was in grade school there was a portrait photograph, framed, of the current POTUS in the hallway of the front entrance. Pretty sure Obama was front and center of a lot of schools during his tenure.

    Guess times change.

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  3. Here I am in sturgis in front of Trump unity bridge. I shouted out where’s all the Biden stuff? Pause. . . Looks could kill. They caught on to my joke when I lol’d

    Lol.

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  4. If this had been a picture of their half chocolate Messiah, there would have been hail Marys everywhere, these people are truly sick.

    By the way, there is only one true Messiah and it isn’t Benito Obama. 😁

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  6. Liberals continue to quickly open the door into their noses with vigorous force.

    I stand back and marvel at their low intellect.

    Keep the show going, morons. You are mildly entertaining

    Nobody entertains like a retard leftist unaware that everyone in the room is laughing at them.

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