Teenager Parker Jensen came out victorious after suing his Baltimore high school district for suspending him when he dared ask administrators why the classrooms in his school didn’t have any American flags in them.
The brouhaha started early in April when Jensen discovered that a Maryland state law maintains that a U.S. flag is supposed to hang in every public school classroom. But he noted that few classrooms Towson High School where he attended had the required flag. So, he went to school district headquarters to ask why.
School administrators didn’t like the fact that Jensen intended to use his cellphone to record the meeting he was seeking with administrators when he asked them why there were violating the rules over the classroom flags. Instead of getting his meeting, district officials called the police and had them remove him from the district building’s grounds. The district then suspended him over the whole thing.
The suspension caused serious harm to Jensen because he was a Marine candidate and his suspension barred him from going to both his prom and his graduation ceremony.
The student hired an attorney and filed a lawsuit against the school for these hateful actions, but now the school has raced to settle the whole thing. Because they know they have no leg to stand on.
The school district was so frightened of the suit, they settled only a few weeks after the suit was filed!
Jensen says he is very happy with the settlement amount. And things worked out well for him, regardless. And the school allowed him to attend his prom, too.
He got an official citation for his patriotism by the Maryland legislature, was awarded “Young Patriot of the Year” by the state GOP, and also received the Charles B. Elder Sr. Memorial Scholarship from the American Legion post 174 out of Timonium. And in August he heads to the U.S. Marines.
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