The high school student/poet, suspended over a poem she wrote that mentioned her feelings about the Newton school shootings, has been allowed back in school at the Life Learning Academy. It’s nice to see that the school realized that children emotions shouldn’t be repressed or demonized, but worked with and through. This last bit if from the Comic Book Legal Defense Funds website that contained quotes from Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. that I’ll leave off with.
In his 1929 autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi wrote: “I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
And in his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King warned:
If…repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history. So I have not said to my people: ‘Get rid of your discontent.’ Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action.
http://cbldf.org/2013/01/suspended-student-poet-allowed-back-to-school/