[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] senior at an L.A. high school was removed from her post making morning announcements at her campus after she expressed support for her teachers going on strike.
Mia Medina, a student at John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, had been doing the school’s morning announcements for three-and-a-half years. Medina told USA Today that she was removed from her position by Principal Richard Chavez after ending a morning announcement by saying, “Teachers, we support you.”
“Every single morning, I do the morning announcements, and for him to take my job away just because I said that I support the teachers is really unfair,” Medina said.
Free speech teaching moment! Yesterday, a Kennedy High School student was fired by the school principal from doing the school announcements after she simply said, "We stand with you teachers." The community stands behind her and demands her reinstatement. #RespectOurStudents pic.twitter.com/3o92hKbKej
— United Teachers Los Angeles (@UTLAnow) January 12, 2019