Jack Christie, is a grade 12 student at Donald A. Wilson Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, who has been indefinitely suspended for posting surreal, crude, humorous videos to YouTube. The videos were first shown in his Economics and Politics classes, where they were thoroughly enjoyed, but when he posted them to YouTube, the school principal gave him a one-day suspension and ordered him to take the videos down. When he refused, he was given an indefinite suspension. Gavin Russell, the student government's prime minister and members of the school's student government took up a petition for Christie's reinstatement, but were ordered to stop collecting signatures or face punishment.
"They've unfairly judged me and judged my character based on something I made for entertainment," Christie said on Wednesday. "I have the right to post videos on the Internet on my own time." A spokeswoman for the Durham District School Board refused to discuss the case, citing confidentiality laws, but obliquely explained the school's actions: "If something is considered detrimental to the positive moral tone of the school, it doesn't necessarily have to happen inside the school [for us to get involved]," said Andrea Pidwerbecki.
Christie has made an appropriately funny and profane rebuttal to the student council, which I have embedded above for your viewing pleasure.
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