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We are talking about a homeowner (the school) who has the right to establish and enforce the rules applicable to its guests (students).

This story is about the government (school) depriving forced citizen attendees (students) of their free speech rights.

[frog in a pot]

This thread is quite interesting because it has elicited surprising views from veteran members.

This story is about the government (school) depriving forced citizen attendees (students) of their free speech rights.

Let me pose these questions:
Does the classroom teacher have the authority to take action against a student who is being profane and obscene during a class? If so, should they have that authority? If they exercise that authority, have they violated the student’s right of free speech?

Then let me say this:
I am willing to bet most on this thread were delighted in a, "score one for the Gipper" sort of way, to hear the student go off script and recite the Lords Prayer. Further, that many of us realize, or at least sense, the nation is at a dangerous and potentially bloody cross roads in its history. Some of us may even believe it is important to maintain our traditional structures until such time as they are obviously ineffective and the moment has arrived for a serious return to the Constitution.

As I suggested upthread, the school presently has the authority to do what it did; I would have applauded what this student tried to do if he had been accepted at Columbia; it was silly of him to do it while planning to attend the USNA.