18 year-old Izaha Akins was touring an Ohio High School and spoke to a government class, impersonating a senator. Only weeks later did the school realize they had been tricked. It is illegal to impersonate an elected official, so he was sentenced to three months in jail. Akins said he was sorry for the incident and for all of the negative attention the school was getting because of it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-gets-jail-pretending-senator-school-tour-204906285.html?nhp=1
This seems like a pretty confusing story to me. First off, the article wasn't very clear about telling the story, and didn't provide many details. Secondly, how did it take the school weeks to figure out that some 18-year-old wasn't a United States senator? I can synthesize this relating to both the senator aspect of the story and the school part. As part of the early government of the United States democracy, it was established that two senators were to come from each state, no matter the population of that specific state. This makes them elected officials, which are illegal to impersonate. The process of someone facing consequences of actions done at a school has happened a lot. In the landmark court case Tinker v Des Moines, two boys were suspended from school for wearing black armbands in protest for the Vietnam War. That, however, was for a more important cause than this particular story that is most likely someone just being dim.
- Isabella Montague 5th period
It is a little baffling that they did not realize the 18 year old was not the senator, I don't understand how that happened. -Claudia Anthony
ReplyDeletehonestly though the fact that the school couldn't figure out this was an 18 year old is sad also 3 months is ridiculous
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