Students suspended for a day for Tebowing

[Bangy 19]

Per ESPN

 

No running in the halls -- and no Tebowing either.

 

That's what one Long Island administration said Wednesday when it suspended a group of high school athletes for replicating Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow's popular pose in the hallway at school.

 

 

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Jordan Fulcoly, Wayne Drexel and brothers Tyler and Connor Carroll of Riverhead High School were all handed a one-day suspension Wednesday, after three days of taking a knee with their foreheads resting on their fists, the same way Tebow does in the end zone and on the sidelines. The news was first reported by Yahoo! Prep Rally earlier Thursday.

 

Riverhead superintendent Nancy Carney said that two of the students' suspensions were later rescinded, citing that administrators found that those students were not given the same warnings that the other two were.

 

Tebow has made headlines for the move, a display of his devotion to his Christian faith. The students were not suspended for bringing religion into the school, but instead for clogging the hallway.

 

Carney said that she supported the administration's efforts to maintain a safe environment and was surprised that the incident has received this much attention. Since the news broke, Carney said she has been receiving hate mail from people charging that the suspension is due to religious prejudice.

 

"It's very unsettling," she told ESPNNewYork.com on Thursday. "It's a shame that people out there are so ready to judge when they weren't there to see what happened."

 

Reports said that the students had been Tebowing all week, starting Monday. It was meant to be a joke, only paying homage to one of pro football's newest stars. But other students started joining in and administrators claimed it had become a disturbance. District officials reportedly told the students that the celebration was making it unsafe for students walking the hall in between classes.

 

The incident saw about 40 students engaging in the popular Tebowing. Only the four students, all athletes, were suspended. Caroll told Prep Rally that the administration told them "that our Tebowing was blocking the halls and could potentially cause a riot, because they were growing in number and if the wrong kid gets pushed a brawl could ensue."

 

Carney said students have three minutes to reach their next class.

 

"It's just high school kids being kids and administrators doing what they do on a daily basis -- keeping kids safe," Carney said, "and with today's world and cell phones and people taking pictures and video, it can be taken out of context."

 

Tyler and Connor Carroll are on the football team along with Drexel.

 

Christopher Hunt is a regular contributor to ESPNNewYork.com.

[KeVo 176]

Do the Tebowing on the field.

[RazorStar 4,025]

It's fucking hard to be a teenager these days.

[Thanatos 2,847]

She was receiving hate-mail?

 

Really, people? How is that showing Christian love to send someone hate-mail over *anything*, much less over something you don't even have all the facts. The amount of hypocrites in my religion is ridiculous.

[CribbsForTheWin 117]

Really? A suspension? I can understand a detention. But a suspension?

[Tridentdawgpound 1,043]

lol schools. Nazi regimes.

[.CD 7]

I do this all the time lol

[housemd 338]

They gotta be kidding me..lol

[BwareDWare94 723]

You know, these kids had every right to express what they believe, and if the administration would have given them warnings such as "you're clogging the hallways, please move off to the side if you're going to pray in such a manner" instead of "stop doing this, now" the kids probably would have listened.

[Barracuda 629]

^They said it was in no way religious. They should have just been smart enough not to do it in the middle of the hallway find an empty room or something if you all want to Tebow together.

[CribbsForTheWin 117]

^They said it was in no way religious. They should have just been smart enough not to do it in the middle of the hallway find an empty room or something if you all want to Tebow together.

 

That would ruin all the fun. They did it because it was probably pretty funny. It still doesnt warrant a suspension, and only a detention if proper warnings were given IMHO. This sounds like my piece of shit administration at my former high school. They have the power so why not use it.

[Barracuda 629]

Nah I don't think it warrants a suspension but they had some form of punishment coming in one form or another.

 

Do whatever the hell you want together after 3:00 PM please.

[funnygunny 521]

Carney said that she supported the administration's efforts to maintain a safe environment and was surprised that the incident has received this much attention.

 

lol. heaps unsafe.

[CARDINAL 205]

It makes me angry that some principals out there have the fuckin nerve to try and control their student body's behaviour. Like a month ago or so, I read this story in the newspaper that a school in Ontario actually BANNED any type of ball (baseball, football, soccer ball, puck, hockey ball, etc.... anything you could think of) on the playground during recess or lunch break. And then it went on to say that they "wanted to promote healthy lifestyles in our students lives." I was just shocked by that bullshit. Political Correctness at any level is a plague in society that needs to be killed. Like these people just need to fuck off and worry about, I don't know, DOING YOUR FUCKIN JOB! When many schools are failing in many subject areas, they should never, under any circumstances, worry about shit like this and instead try to figure out how to improve the performance of the school and the student's overall educational achievement. If I was in charge I would have a school district press conference and fire all principals and teachers who support this bullshit and say that they need to mind their own fuckin business ans get a new job somewhere else.

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You know, these kids had every right to express what they believe, and if the administration would have given them warnings such as "you're clogging the hallways, please move off to the side if you're going to pray in such a manner" instead of "stop doing this, now" the kids probably would have listened.

 

Unlikely.. They probably just wanted attention, to make the news, to be rebels, etc etc...

[oochymp 2,393]

^They said it was in no way religious. They should have just been smart enough not to do it in the middle of the hallway find an empty room or something if you all want to Tebow together.

I could be wrong, but isn't the whole point of "tebowing" to do it in a public place where you're at least somewhat in the way?

 

that said, the school was fully in its rights to tell the kids not to block the hallway, and the article did say that two of the suspensions were rescinded because the students didn't get a warning

[Barracuda 629]

I could be wrong, but isn't the whole point of "tebowing" to do it in a public place where you're at least somewhat in the way?

 

that said, the school was fully in its rights to tell the kids not to block the hallway, and the article did say that two of the suspensions were rescinded because the students didn't get a warning

 

I don't know what the whole point of tebowing is, or care but if that is the sole purpose then they deserved whatever punishment they get. That's just idiotic.