The $5 T-shirt stirred a national debate over free speech rights, as First Amendment experts and Foxworthy himself weighed in on the topic
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First Amendment Rights and government schools are fundamentally conflicted. Why?
1) The government school ( and all schools ) MUST restrict free speech, free press, free assembly, and free expression of religion. If they don't, the school becomes chaotic. Therefore, government has a choice. It can run chaotic and unsafe schools or it can trample First Amendment Rights.
2) The education of children is fundamentally the transfer of the collected wisdom of the society. That wisdom has PROFOUND political, cultural, and moral and ethical ( religious) consequences and content. Those consequences and content are NEVER neutral. So...government has a choice. It can open buildings and teach nothing at all, or it can support and ESTABLISH the politics, culture, and religion of some while actively,deliberately and maliciously destroy those of others.
3)Finally, government schools are a price-fixed monopoly. They are giving a product away for free. This is a hostile business climate for the creation of private alternatives. The cost of government schools is MORE than $11,000 per government schooled K-12 child per year. This stresses many families with taxes driving both mother and father into the work force. Then when private schools are scarce, and neither parent can homeschool, the government then threatens the children and parents with armed police, court, and foster care if they refuse to send their child to the NON-NEUTRAL government indoctrination camp. This is a GROSS violation of freedom of assembly. Once in the government school the children are told to shut, not to publish, not to freely assemble and forbidden to express their religion FOR NEARLY ALL of their time in the government clutches.
Government schools are an abomination and unconstitutional. We must begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education IMMEDIATELY!
The following is an excellent article explain why government schools are unconstitutional on a state or federal level:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter9.htm