Frankly, I want to go to school uniforms. Solves all these stupid problems.
I'm with you on school uniforms. But until then, right to life messages totally belong in school. That's where the indoctrination begins.
Protesting abortion is not political, this issue trancends politics. It is protesting the degradation of humanity.
School is not the place for political protests of any sort. School is only a place to learn the material presented.
As a former high school teacher, I need to respond to this statement. First, your sentence is a bit awkward. Do you mean to say that "school" is the only place to learn? Or did you mean to say that "school" is a place to learn only the material presented?
Second, some "material" that is being presented is not worth learning, and is presented to evoke thought and questions.
School is a place where learning takes place. We hope that learning can be directed and focused. But we also hope that a student might actually learn more than any teacher could have foreseen.
The tee-shirt and pamphlets presented a wonderful opportunity for learning. What a shame that no one in that "school" saw all the benefits of free speech as related to our founding documents, of controversy, of science, of psychology, of sociology, of all the many writings and debates possible because of this young man's point of view.
The place seems to have been taken over by uninformed, cowardly cretins. Our country is in very serious trouble.
If any other students are allowed to wear T-shirts with writing on them, this young man has permission to do so. Period.
The material presented is the issue.
It might not be the place for politics, but SCOTUS ruled that it's OK. The precedent setting case had something to do with black armbands "protesting" the Vietnam war in school at Des Moines, Iowa.