Teacher back at school after being put on leave for questioning double standard in gun protests

By Mike Ciandella

A history teacher in California is back in her classroom after briefly being put on paid administrative leave for raising questions about the fairness of the National School Walkout over gun violence, which took place earlier this month.

Julianne Benzel, who teaches at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, California, said that she was “overwhelmed by the support of this community.”

She added, “It was wonderful to see my students. They were glad to have me back. And I was glad to be back in the classroom.”

Before she was put on leave, Benzel had asked her class whether schools should endorse protests selectively or in all cases. She said that she never told her students not to join the National School walkout, or said anything against it. Her question to her classroom was simply whether the school would support a protest about another controversial topic.

“If high schools or public schools are going to be places of civic activism, I could not be a better proponent for it. But it has to be afforded to any student to protest anything,” she said in an interview with Sacramento’s KOVR-TV after she returned to school.

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Source:: The Blaze