In addition to Yale, more than 40 universities, including Brown (pictured), Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have issued statements supporting prospective scholars who may risk school disciplinary action by joining protests. Photo: Getty ImagesDozens of US colleges and universities, including at least three Ivy League schools, have said their application processes will not consider disciplinary action taken against high school students who protest last week's massacre at a Florida school. Many school districts officials have threatened to suspend high school students who take part in nationwide gun control walkouts and other demonstrations called by survivors of the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Such disciplinary action can sometimes hurt a student's chances of getting into a preferred college. NRA officials have lashed out at gun control advocates, arguing that Democratic elites are politicising the Parkland rampage to erode gun rights.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 25, 2018 02:03 UTC