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"Then why don't we have prayer in schools? We should, using your logic. A public school is a public place. If people want to put that stuff up, then the public has a right to know about it and determine if that's appropriate for a public place."

People did know, I assume. The students knew. The stuff was out in the open where anyone entering the classroom could see it.

Prayer is another matter entirely. There are some questions regarding prayer in the classroom that are constitutional issues.

Being a leftist, however loathsome that is, is not a crime in the USA. Posting student images that ridicule a President is not a crime in the USA, nor is posting pictures of Castro or anyone else.

The police are about crimes; they are not a political force. Unless some crime has been committed, where is the police's legitimacy in this matter. Obviously the police can come into the school...during school hours. Why was it necessary to sneak around?

Now, suppose the police had snuck into the mayor's office, after being let in by the custodian, rifled through his drawers and found some evidence that the mayor reads Playboy Magazine, for example. Again, no crime. Again, a public building. Again, the cop would have done wrong.

Speech we do not like is protected by the First Amendment.