PROTEST WON'T COST WAWOTA STUDENT MARKS

REGINA -- Wawota's Kieran King may be able to hang onto his honour
roll status, despite being suspended from Wawota Parkland School for
violating a lockdown.

King, 15, ignored the lockdown and tried to rally students to walk
out in support of free speech. He was protesting the order of school
principal Susan Wilson to stop talking about marijuana at school.

The debacle has attracted national attention and officials have come
under withering criticism for their handling of the walkout and
treatment of King.

Now, officials appear to have shifted their earlier position on the
matter of King's final grades. He will not receive zero for each
final exam he didn't write during his suspension. Instead, the school
will award him a cumulative average of his marks throughout the school year.

King is an honour roll student with marks in the 80s and 90s.