High School Student Suspended For Tweeting About Teacher’s Horrible Parking Job

Curtis High School in Staten Island is now learning a good lesson about teenagers on Twitter.

1. Erik Nielsen has started a pretty lively twitter trend after he was suspended for tweeting about a teacher’s bad parking job.

We all have to support Erik in his battle against the oppresive ways of the Board of Ed #TweetForErik #FreeErik twitter.com/mattdiaz4life/…

— matt diaz (@mattdiaz4life) February 21, 2013

2. Nielsen has since deleted all of the tweets from his account, but here’s a snapshot taken by The Daily Dot of the twitter exchange between Erik and his teacher:

Source: dailydot.com

3. Perhaps a good lesson about dealing with teenagers on the internet, since Nielsen’s suspension the #TweetForErik and #FreeErik hashtags have began blowing up.

He thought I was joking when I said this #TweetForErik @nielsen25_ twitter.com/ShitOnPaul/sta…

— Gritty Dirtbag (@ShitOnPaul) February 21, 2013

4. There’s even merch.

$3 t-shirts for #TweetForErik tomorrow look for me twitter.com/yoffredo/statu…

— john yoffredo (@yoffredo) February 21, 2013

5. According to The Daily Dot, Curtis High School couldn’t confirm how long Nielsen’s suspension was for, but that he had a meeting with the principal Tuesday.

Welcome to Curtis #TweetForErik twitter.com/GabCapasso96/s…

— Gabrielle Capasso (@GabCapasso96) February 21, 2013

6. In the meantime though, as you can see, Nielsen’s classmates are dead set on turning this into a whole thing.

#TweetForErik #ThisIsAmerica twitter.com/DHunsz/status/…

— Dylan Hunold (@DHunsz) February 21, 2013