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Katie Sierra's English teacher said today that the teenage anarchist from Sissonville frequently invoked her constitutional rights even before she filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the local school board.
Substitute teacher Jean McCutcheon, who taught Sierra's English class for a month last year, said that Sierra brought various constitutional issues to her attention, ranging from her right to free speech to her right to keep her purse by her desk.
"That would be something that she usually approached me about," McCutcheon said. "If she thought that her constitutional rights were being violated."
McCutcheon, testifying in the fourth day of 15-year-old anti- war demonstrator Sierra's lawsuit against her principal and the Kanawha County school board in Kanawha Circuit Court, said that Sierra's activities at the school caused a "simmering feeling" among the student body.
In her testimony, McCutcheon said that Sierra came to her after Principal Forest Mann refused to allow her to begin a school- sanctioned anarchy club.
Mann's decision and the school board's affirmation of...