Jamie Sullivan, the Mancini family's attorney, told Newsweek that Cheshire Academy failed to 'honor a promise to allow a student to express his conservative views open and freely.'
A Connecticut family has filed a lawsuit against a college preparatory school in the state seeking monetary damages for their son, whom they alleged was expelled from the institution for holding “politically incorrect views.”
One of the incidents allegedly occurred during a class discussion on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a play where the lead character Viola cross-dresses as a male. Though most of the class agreed that the playwright promoted transgender individuals in the text, Mancini disagreed, arguing that the author likely didn’t intend to make such a progressive statement during the period it was written .
Jamie Sullivan, the family’s attorney, told Newsweek that Mancini was sent a letter detailing his expulsion the day after the website was launched, with the school citing the website as one of the reasons that informed their decision. “Academic institution should embrace not only a diversity of students in terms of race and ethnicity, but also a diversity of thought and ideas. That’s a hallmark of liberalism,” Sullivan said. “My client did not attack anyone, did not single anyone out, didn’t want to embarrass or hurt anyone; he was just talking generally about historical things and other issues in society.”
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