Huntington Beach family sues school district over students’ right to hand out fliers

The Press Enterprise ^ | 11 Jan 2019 | Deepa Bharath, OC Register

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Full title: Huntington Beach family sues school district over students’ right to hand out fliers promoting Bring Your Bible to School Day HUNTINGTON BEACH — A Los Angeles-based conservative Christian group has filed a federal lawsuit against the Huntington Beach City School District on behalf of two children, alleging they were unlawfully prohibited from distributing fliers promoting Bring Your Bible to School Day. The lawsuit, filed Monday, Jan. 7 by Freedom X in United States District Court in Santa Ana, alleges that the school district violated the First Amendment rights of Micah Bausch, 10, and Nieka Bausch, 8, by curtailing their right to free speech and freedom of religion. Both attend John R. Peterson Elementary School....{snip}

...Recess and lunch time shouldn’t count as instructional time, said Holly Bausch, the students’ mother.

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I guess this dates back to Oct 4?

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related?:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3690532/posts

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The Supreme Court has balanced the free speech rights of students against the legitimate need of school officials to maintain a safe, functional, and productive educational environment. After all, a school is not a public square where people come and go at will and are allowed, in general, to speak freely. A school has a particular mission—to educate students—and the First Amendment allows schools to institute policies and rules that promote that mission, even at the cost of a reasonable limitation on student expression.

Under the Supreme Court’s decisions, a school may not interfere with a student’s right of free expression unless that speech:

• will “materially and substantially disrupt” the school environment
• is done in a manner that is lewd or vulgar
• is presented as if endorsed by the school, or
• promotes illegal drug use.

This is not necessarily a list of the only limitations a school may constitutionally impose on student expression. First Amendment law is a dynamic area of law and we can expect future decisions by courts on student free speech parameters.

[elcid1970]

I’ll bet the educrats would not have the slightest objection to “Bring Your Koran to School” leafleteers.

They’d be denounced as Islamophobes if they did.

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It is impossible for any school to be religiously, politically, or culturally neutral. Such a state of neutrality is impossible in the mind of any sentient human.

NO government school in this nation is religiously neutral. All of them violate the First Amendment human rights of the students forced to attend and the citizens forced to pay for them.

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Good!

Islam is being promoted in schools.

If they’re going to allow that, then they need to allow other religions.

If Christianity is banned, so must islam be.

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Betcha dollars to doughnuts if a Muzzie group handed out fliers for “Bring Your Koran To School Day” during lunch and recess, nothing would be said or done by the school.