Only disagreed with #6.
I’m a big free speech fan, and that the most protected speech is that which is the minority position. If a teacher stops teaching and starts converting, then it’s up to the parents and school board to argue it out. But the teacher get’s a chance to be different and screw up. I don’t like the idea of educators being in lock step with the government.
Not talking about politics doesn’t put a teacher “in lock step with the government”. But talking about politics certainly could. Or, perhaps I missed your point.
Where in the Constitution is this:
“the most protected speech is that which is the minority position.”
All speech is equal unless it encourages violence. Speech by a majority isn’t less protected than speech by a minority, they are both equal in protection.