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<\/a>Former principal Zach Ruff<\/p><\/div>\n
A school district whose f-bombing principal abruptly quit after he was caught on camera badgering and bullying two children has agreed to counsel its faculty and staff on the \u201cconstitutionally protected freedoms\u201d in America.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s according to a report from the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented Conner and Lauren Haines after their confrontation with former principal Zach Ruff.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old administrator \u201cphysically intimidated and shouted expletives at two teens, who were peacefully expressing their pro-life views on a public sidewalk near the school,\u201d ADF said.<\/p>\n
WND reported earlier how Ruff approached two students who represent an organization called Project Frontlines and were speaking out against the holocaust of abortion \u2013 the estimated 60 million unborn who have been killed in America since Roe v. Wade created a right to abortion.<\/p>\n
On the video, Ruff charged up to the students and threatened to call police because they were \u201ctrespassing\u201d on school property.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not children. They\u2019re cells. Go home!\u201d screamed Ruff.<\/p>\n
See what American education has become, in \u201cCrimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America\u2019s Children.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSir, you need to turn to Jesus Christ,\u201d the teen responded.<\/p>\n
Ruff unloaded.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen here, son. I am as gay as the day is long. I don\u2019t give a (expletive) what Jesus tells me about what I should and should not be doing. You are harassing public-school students, and I will call the police if you don\u2019t shut up,\u201d Ruff said.<\/p>\n
The pro-life activists recorded the bullying and then uploaded it to YouTube (Editor\u2019s Note: Video contains extremely offensive language by the school official):<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yO3RwSKFK_8<\/p>\n
The students repeatedly expressed opposition to abortion and offered Jesus Christ as the way to salvation.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can go to hell where they are too,\u201d Ruff told them, pointing at the images on their signs.<\/p>\n
Among his other rants:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not children; they\u2019re cells.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re at a science-based school. Those are cells. Take it out, and if it can live on its own, that\u2019s freakin\u2019 awesome. Otherwise you\u2019re harassing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou and Trump can go to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShut up and leave me and my children alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShut your mouth and don\u2019t talk to my students. You do not have permission to speak and engage.\u201d<\/p>\n
He made multiple threats to call police, including when an adult got out of a nearby car and expressed displeasure with Ruff\u2019s anti-free speech attitude.<\/p>\n
Now, the ADF reports, the Downingtown Area School District \u201chas agreed to clarify its administrative policies to ensure that public sidewalks surrounding its schools are open to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of a settlement to avoid being sued in court, the Philadelphia-area school district will take immediate steps to prevent incidents like the one that occurred in April when a 40-year-old administrator physically intimidated and shouted expletives at two teens, who were peacefully expressing their pro-life views on a public sidewalk near the school,\u201d the organization reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo government employee \u2013 especially someone with authority over students \u2013 should harass or threaten anyone for exercising their First Amendment protected freedoms in public,\u201d said ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot. \u201cConner and Lauren Haines were peacefully expressing their pro-life views, holding signs, and talking to those passing by. The bullying and verbal abuse that Zach Ruff inflicted on Conner and Lauren, as documented in the video, made a policy clarification critically necessary, not only for the Haineses, but also for everyone in the Downingtown community. We commend the district for doing the right thing to prevent this from ever happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The district also sent the teens a letter acknowledging Ruff\u2019s illegal behavior.<\/p>\n
\u201cI write on behalf of the Downingtown Area School District to acknowledge the illegality of Dr. Zach Ruff\u2019s behavior on April 21 when you were speaking on the public sidewalk outside the Downingtown STEM Academy,\u201d wrote Superintendent of Schools Emilie Lonardi in a July 7 letter to Conner and Lauren Haines. \u201cYou had every right under our Constitution\u2019s First Amendment to speak and display signs like you did, and that right was violated by Dr. Ruff. Rest assured that Dr. Ruff\u2019s actions do not represent the policy of the school district. Instead, we will be providing information to our employees on the First Amendment rights of individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruff had been suspended after the incident, and promptly quit.<\/p>\n
But the ADF also documented that the teens were targeted by \u201cmany Downington Public School students and parents\u201d who \u201cfollowed Ruff\u2019s example \u2013 sending Conner and Lauren hundreds of messages that demonstrated they don\u2019t understand freedom of speech. Some of the comments were threatening and vulgar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruff eventually resorted to shouting and screaming to try to drown out the students\u2019 message.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looooove a paraaaaade!\u201d<\/p>\n
To the student\u2019s statement that \u201cJesus Christ can set you free from your sins,\u201d he said: \u201cThis is a public school. We don\u2019t believe in that here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruff later disappeared abruptly from the video while the pro-life students were engaged in conversation with another student.<\/p>\n