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7, several students and parents protested at a school board meeting, requesting not only that the expulsions be overturned, but that students be given an opportunity to express themselves freely. The superintendent countered with a statement stating that students could have chosen to protest after school and outside school, but instead chose to disrupt the school day, which was the sole motivation for the punishments. Police officers who had responded to the scene confirmed that the students were peaceful, and had moved to a side hallway when asked to by school officials to avoid a high traffic area. Three students were suspended for one year, pending
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placement, one for two years pending alternative school placement, and a fifth was suspended for two years, and was not to receive any further services from the district. Of the 27 speakers who spoke in the public forum (not all of which were speaking about the expulsion issue), at least 12 spoke
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Some white students took exception to this and began to yell and threaten him. Racial tensions began to mount over a few days prompting the school to confiscate the remains of the flag. Several white students mounted a mass recital of the
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