[rigelkentaurus]

At the risk of being the lone voice in the crowd, where did the teacher’s freedom of speech go?

It didn't go anywhere. Kind of a misunderstood right, in my humble opinion. She has the right to say anything she wants. The government does not have the right to tell her otherwise. Other citizens have the right to not like her speech. Choices in life have consequences. In summary, she exercised her free speech rights without government interference, and other citizens delivered consequences of her speech to her. They system worked.

[Snuke]

I agree, definitely a misunderstood right, very sticky and difficult to resolve fairly. What galls me is how, since the teacher is liberal and the parents conservative, everyone on this site immediately agrees with the parents. It should not be so one-sided; if it is such a sticky issue, both sides are entitled to their free speech as well as their right to disagree with others. However, it seems that the parent’s right to free speech is greater than the teacher’s.

IMO, the teacher had the right to post what she did - considering the lack of identifying facts - and the parents had the right to disagree. They asked her to take off the blog, so she did. Justice served.