TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL

A Saskatchewan school, Wawota Parkland, had suspended a student, Kieran King, who argued that alcohol was much more dangerous than marijuana and then advocated a walkout in support of free speech. The school had barred the doors preventing the walkout and called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to “assess the threat” that King’s position posed to the school and community. King was suspended for 3 days but the school chose the days of his exams and would not allow him to retake them driving his grades from A’s to D’s. There was of course no threat, and actually what King was saying was scientifically correct. King was further motivated because a close relative had been killed by a drunken driver.

A Saskatchewan school, Wawota Parkland, had suspended a student, Kieran King, who argued that alcohol was much more dangerous than marijuana and then advocated a walkout in support of free speech. The school had barred the doors preventing the walkout and called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to “assess the threat” that King’s position posed to the school and community. King was suspended for 3 days but the school chose the days of his exams and would not allow him to retake them driving his grades from A’s to D’s. There was of course no threat, and actually what King was saying was scientifically correct. King was further motivated because a close relative had been killed by a drunken driver.