Judge won't readmit four students involved in slavery petition

A federal judge declined to lift the expulsion or suspensions handed out to four suburban Kansas City high school students who were disciplined for their involvement in an online petition to “start slavery again.”

U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough acknowledged in his ruling Tuesday that the four students from Park Hill South High School will likely suffer harm if they aren’t allowed to return to the school immediately or ever, in one student’s case. But he said their lawsuit was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its claims if the case went to trial, radio station KCUR reported.

The four ninth-graders sued the Park Hill school district and several administrators after one was expelled and three others were suspended for 180 days over the online petition.

A district spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment and it wasn’t clear when the suspended students would be allowed to return to school.

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