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Kanawha Circuit Judge James Stucky told Katie Sierra Wednesday that he could not guarantee her safety at Sissonville High School.
Stucky said Sierra should expect additional criticism at school. He also offered to arrange Sierra's transfer to another Kanawha County high school.
"I personally believe other schools [in Kanawha County] are more diverse and have different views and that she may be able to go there and fit in a little niche," Stucky said in a face-to-face talk with Sierra and her mother in his courtroom Wednesday.
Kanawha school board lawyer Gary Pullin said Sierra would be welcome to return to Sissonville High.
"She's perfectly as safe at Sissonville as every other student," Pullin said.
"She's not every student at Sissonville High," Stucky responded. "She's Katie Sierra."
Last month, Sierra sued the school board after she was suspended for trying to start an anarchy club and wearing T-shirts with handwritten messages opposing U.S. military action in Afghanistan.
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