[WFTR]

I don't think that your position makes you a fascist, but I don't agree with you. If we are to survive as a society, we must be able to distinguish between messages and ideas that are harmful and those that are not harmful. We must distinguish between that which we may find offensive but must allow and that which we are right to ban. While I don't think that students should make the rules, they need to learn to live in a world where those distinctions are made. They need to learn that they must be productive even though they don't like the "message" of their neighbor's life, clothing, etc..

WFTR
Bill

[Torie]

I would prefer that such debate be done through something other than message clothing, such as through a discussion in the classroom. Even then, I worry that it deflects schools from their primary mission, which is about acquiring reading comprehension, powers of reason, and numeracy. There is time enough later to apply all of that to the public square.