Get a grip, man! A high school kid doesn’t get to give a speech...it’s not a constitutional crisis.
It's a government school...His speech had to be pre-approved by govenrment employees.
There were people with their hands on the microphone cut-off button...What were they so afraid of hearing?
BTW, I knew you'd evade the question...
It is unfortunate that so many here have chosen to make this a crisis when it is not. We entrust school officials to maintain discipline and decorum and they cannot do that without imposing reasonable rules. What is said at a graduation ceremony likely attended by grandparents, parents and siblings is no exception and the rule seems quite reasonable. No school official could anticipate what was going to be said and it is quite unreasonable to suggest they could and took the action they took because they are against the Constitution.
Why didn't the speaker submit his pro-constitution speech for approval? If it were not approved, then he would have a case about whether it was appropriate or not. Some here think the school is a public forum where anyone is entitled to grab the microphone and say whatever they please as an exercise of their First Amendment rights. It is not and people would be jumping all over those officials if they allowed that podium to be used for any and every cause that came along.
I didn't send my children to school to practice their First Amendment rights but to learn and behave themselves. I expected the school to make reasonable rules concerning what my children would be exposed to since they were in effect the custodians of my children. We are talking about children, not mature and reasoning adults. We are talking about a school and not the public square. Those who can't see the difference are not thinking, but reacting.