“Do you think 1969 was a good year for real civil liberties....”
If 1969 was not a proud moment in our history for civil liberties, then 2009 is equally, if not more shameful in terms of the public school system’s attack on christian values.
Now is not the time to relinquish control of our children to the halls of liberalism in our public schools. The court system once corrected the wrongs committed against minorities. The courts can once again justly protect the rights of christian values in our public schools.
There is no logic whatsover in resigning oneself to a public school authority that supresses the values of christians while pushing a godless, morally relativistic agenda.
Christian values? Obama’s a Christian by his own sayso, and the main line Protestant sects are all gung ho over homosexual clergy and marriage and such. G-dly values we can agree on, but brand them with an establishment and we have gone astray because the establishments of men go astray.
Nor is disrespecting proper authority helpful. A Principal has the proper authority on his or her sayso to say that a particular way of expressing oneself, in speech, dress or behavior is disruptive and can not be allowed. To my understanding that proper authority is very broad and non-reviewable in particular cases. As a general policy one may appeal to the school board to have the policy or the Principal changed. But that ALONE is the proper level of review and the citizen’s check on an out of control district — by appeal to, election and recall of board members.
Individually a student has recourse for acts of criminality, or torts against the student — but the maintenance of order in a classroom within the a customary standards of the time is never a tort. Individually a student and the parents can chose to switch schools to move to another district, to homeschool. You are not without recourse against bad teaching in a district.
It’s hard to impossible, in my view, to justify undermining the proper authority of Principals and Teachers by the imposition of the threat of court review of any action they take that is meant in their professional opinion to improve the situation in the classroom, and which falls within general standards of the time.