May 12, 2013

Principal, Jamille Miller Brown, Suspends Student for Posting Mug Shot


Jamille Miller Brown Mug Shot

The principal of Georgia's Riverdale High School, Jamille Miller Brown, got angry when Keandre Varner, one of her students, posted her mug shot on Instagram and speculated about her being arrested for DUI. Her claim is that she was actually arrested for failing to appear in court over a speeding ticket.

Jamille Miller Brown suspended Keandre Varner from school for "posting misinformation," and now the story has reached far beyond the halls of Riverdale High School. If that shortsighted principal had just swallowed her pride and let Varner post her mug shot, only hundreds would have seen her mug shot over a period of weeks. Instead, Jamille Miller Brown chose to be petty and infringe on a student's freedom of speech, which now means her mug shot will be seen by millions for the rest of her life.

In a couple of years, when people search for Jamille Miller Brown on the internet and find the results heavily cluttered with her mug shot and mentions of this incident, she will probably wish she had just left Keandre Varner and his freedom of speech alone.

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