That is the wrong place to fight. Have to respect the ultimate authority of the Principal in the day to day operation of the school even when it is stupid. It is to the school board to deal with him, not anyone else.
The voters and the people can influence the Board via the vote or popular uproar, the Principal can be influenced via personal pleading within the bounds of the district’s policies.
Failing those remedies the parents can sent the child to a different school — or homeschool.
Sorry, but the unfortunate tragedy is that the public schools is where the fight is being lost!!!
This insidious form of indoctrination in our public school systems is producing a generation of kids, many of which have little parental direction at home, who are being led to believe nothing is wrong with regards to abortion, and that it is just a “blob of flesh”.
Kid’s have every right to free speech in the public schools. I’m not worried about the opposing, leftist side of the argument. In the arena of free speech, the correct argument always prevails.
[Failing those remedies the parents can sent the child to a different school — or homeschool.]
Wrong, most parents, by law CANNOT just send their child to a different school.
And great, if they want to homeschool, can they stop paying their property taxes too?
Principal can’t set aside the first amendment on a whim either. The shirt stated a perfectly civil political position.
Principal, and others in that school, don’t have the right not to be offended by civil political discourse. Both the Constitution, despite its many court-induced distortions, and the case law indicate that political speech is still protected speech everywhere (except of course for the McCain/Feingold dreck). It doesn’t matter if you agree with it, so long as its civil - meaning that it doesn’t offend the sensibilities (silkscreen of an aborted fetus on the shirt would offend the sensibilities, for example).
I have no problem with the Principal setting the rules on t-shirts with messages, and the like. I wonder whether other kinds of messages on t-shirts have previously been allowed. If so, then I have a big problem with the Principal requiring this kids to remove his shirt. A big problem.