“Constitutional rights don’t stop at the door of any school.”
They do stop where I work. I doubt I’d get much sympathy if I badmouthed my company at work (or even outside of work), not to mention exercising my Second Amendment is out of the question.
Pretty much the same for people who dump their kids in government schools - you have to play by THEIR RULES, which is why stuff like this continues.
If you work in private industry, you have made a contract with your employer to follow the company rules.
That is different than your constitutional rights, which this student has re his outside of the school activities if they don’t directly relate to the school-safety, slander of, false accusations against, and prohibited behavior that is either disruptive or dangerous.
A teacher cannot hit a student. That’s a crime. A teacher cannot have illegal sexual activity, if at all, with a student (age is occasionally an issue). The same for religious or racial or ethnic discrimination (Federal law).
Just because these are “government schools”, it does not necessarily mean that THEIR RULES are legal re local, state or Federal law.
Another poster said that courts are reluctant to get into this issue but that has been changing over the past 20 years or so. Just because they are “reluctant” to address a legal issue doesn’t mean that the “issue” isn’t a constitutional right that covers students. It is a very fluid situation and I predict that it will change even more in the near future because of pending cases, mainly from conservative parents/law groups against a growing leftist/neo-Marxist authoritarian trend in how schools are run.
Lots of us cannot afford to put our children into private schools (when my kids were your). If you can, fine. However, how about giving me about $30,000 a year to put my step-grandchild into a private school for children with visual handicaps? His parents are having a difficult time right now and cannot afford it either.
When can I expect your gracious check?