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Texas School District Threatens to Suspend Students Protesting Gun Violence

Superintendent Curtis Rhodes says "disruptions will not be tolerated."
By Harriet Sinclair / Newsweek
February 22, 2018, 7:43 AM GMT
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A Texas school district has threatened to suspend any of its students who stage walk out or cause other disruption in order to protest gun laws following the mass shooting in Florida. Student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed in last week’s attack, have been vocal about…



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