Pubdate: Sat, 30 Jun 2007
Source: StarPhoenix, The (CN SN)
Copyright: 2007 The StarPhoenix
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Author: Saskatchewan News Network
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/free+speech (Free Speech)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm (Youth)

PROTEST WON'T COST WAWOTA STUDENT MARKS

REGINA -- Wawota's Kieran King may be able to hang onto his honour 
roll status, despite being suspended from Wawota Parkland School for 
violating a lockdown.

King, 15, ignored the lockdown and tried to rally students to walk 
out in support of free speech. He was protesting the order of school 
principal Susan Wilson to stop talking about marijuana at school.

The debacle has attracted national attention and officials have come 
under withering criticism for their handling of the walkout and 
treatment of King.

Now, officials appear to have shifted their earlier position on the 
matter of King's final grades. He will not receive zero for each 
final exam he didn't write during his suspension. Instead, the school 
will award him a cumulative average of his marks throughout the school year.

King is an honour roll student with marks in the 80s and 90s.
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