Please be respectful:
Dr. Dianne Kelly
Superintendent
781-286-8226
Email: dkelly@revere.mec.edu
Hannah Orenstein writes for Seventeen magazine:
The head cheerleader at one Massachusetts high school has been banned from cheering for the rest of the season after she tweeted an offensive comment about immigrants.
Caley Godino, a senior at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, was asked to watch the political debates leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Her teacher tweeted a comment about the low voter turnout for November’s mayoral race, which prompted Caley to post a controversial tweet.
“When only 10 percent of Revere votes for mayor cause the other 90 percent isn’t legal,” she reportedly tweeted. (Her profile is private.)
As of 2010, 27 percent of Revere’s population was born outside the United States. Caley says she intended the comment to express her political views, not her views on race, according to MyFoxBoston.com. Her political views were inspired by Donald Trump. But after several students complained, school officials stepped in.
“If you’re going to stand up and say something that other people will find offensive, then you need to be prepare to deal with the ramifications of that,” Superintendent Dianne Kelley told MyFoxBoston.com.
Caley is now banned from cheering for the rest of the season, according to her mother.
The superintendent said that the tweet was not the sole cause for Caley’s punishment, though out of concern for student privacy, could not comment further. Students and teachers at Revere High are now joining together to create a curriculum to address diversity and acceptance.
Three cheers for a more tolerant future.
