[Tax-chick]

It is regrettable when parents have to choose which right their child will be deprived of - free speech or a public education," said Kevin Snider, Chief Counsel for PJI.

Free speech is a right. Government education is a trap. Go for free speech, folks.

[FormerACLUmember]

I guess this are also going to cause problems:

[GeekDejure]

And if it said "Homosexuality is Supercalifragilisticexpialidociously Magnificent" the student would be automatically elevated to valedictorian, right?

[elli1]

I expect that a student who wore a 'Heterosexuality Is Wrong' t-shirt to school would have gotten the same treatment. My rule to my kids is that the 'message' t-shirts don't go to school. Wear 'em to sleep in, after school, all weekend, whatever, I don't care--just not to school. My message to my kids is that 'School is work' and you don't wear things that are inappropriate for the workplace to school.

[lightman]

Tinker vs. Des Moines, 1969, established that students "do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate". Unless the free expression through clothing is overtly violent or obscene, any regulation must be content-neutral. If other "message" T shirts are permitted this shirt must be permitted.

How anyone can complete the coursework and testing to become a school administrator without knowledge of this basic case is beyond me, but we see examples of such ignorance every December as some try to ban Christmas cards, candy canes, and "Merry Christmas".

[Unam Sanctam]

Bump

[BenLurkin]

"Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing"

[Dont Mention the War]

All well and good, but this is horrid journalism. No name of student, no name of school, no name of any school officials involved no dates (the date the article was written is irelevant) ... this entire article could have been invented out of whole cloth.

[little jeremiah]

Ping to self for later pingout.