School Discriminates Against a 13-Year-Old Student Over A Poem
A teacher at Drake Middle School in Jefferson County, Colorado, assigned her class to write a slam poem about a world conflict that they cared about. A slam poem is a high-energy, performance-based form of spoken word poetry designed to be performed aloud rather than read silently. It was invented in the 1980s by Marc Kelly Smith as a competitive, accessible alternative to traditional and often formal poetry readings. Slam poetry combines powerful writing, theatrical delivery, and direct engagement with the audience.
Apparently, what the woke teacher really meant when the class was told to write about something they cared about was to write about anything except preserving life.
One 13-year-old seventh grader chose abortion, but the teacher would not allow her to read the poem. The teacher had to admit that her poem met every requirement. She had woven hard stats about the lives that were taken since Roe v. Wade, biblical verses, and even Dr. Seuss, but this leftist indoctrinator said that her poem was “offensive,” “politically charged,” and may make other students feel “unsafe.”
That statement alone is ridiculous, but it becomes even more ludicrous when compared to what was allowed to be read. Poems pushing LGBTQ activism, poems mocking Jesus, and attacking the Second Amendment were all greenlighted. Her pro-life poem was the only one that was deemed unacceptable by this liberal propagandist.
At first, the teacher actually tried to remove the girl from the classroom, but other students pushed back, and she was then forced to sit in silence while every other student read their poems.
Libs of TikTok posted videos of the girl with her mother, explaining what happened, and reading her poem.
This poem was personal to both the student and her mother. The girl’s mother shared something in their viral interview that the school’s administrators will never understand.
Her own mother got pregnant at 14, and she chose life.
“There’s hope in hard situations. There’s purpose in pain. Good things come out of situations that seem bleak. My family is proof of that.”
Jefferson County School officials must be either brain-dead about reality or among the slowest and most ignorant in the country. The county recently violated the Department of Education’s order under the Trump administration by allowing biological males to use girls’ bathrooms and participate on girls’ sports teams.
Here’s the good news. The Alliance Defending Freedom is already at the Supreme Court right now with a nearly identical case out of Indiana, where a pro-life student group was banned from posting flyers while 70 other clubs posted theirs freely.
ADF Senior Counsel John Bursch put it plainly: “Students don’t lose their constitutionally protected freedom of speech when they walk into a school building.”
Something that was settled long ago, when the Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines in 1969.
Jefferson County didn’t learn from that lesson; something tells me they will this time.
