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Please direct me to the portion of the Constitution regarding complaints against governemnt-run schools. While you're at it, find me the part that authorizes them in the first place...

Oh, and they can complain all they want. And be ignored, too. No one has the right to be heard. If the local school board (probably elected) says the policy stays, it stays. And you can stop leeching my tax money to provide an education your kids don't deserve (that's a rhetorical "you")...

BTW, I teach in the public schools, and would like nothing better than to see them abolished. Education is a privilege, not a right (regardless of what the Warren Court said). But, so long as they exist, don't whine to me because you are too selfish to sacrifice your third car or widescreen cable TV in order to put your kids in a school with policies you like (another rhetorical "you").

Please direct me to the portion of the Constitution regarding complaints against governemnt-run schools.

As schools are agents of the government I direct you to the entire Bill of Rights. If the school (agent of the government) attempts to restrict your right to say a prayer in public you have the right to complain because the government is not allowed to restrict the practice of your religion.

Neither is the government allowed to censor your home webpage because you say something rude about a teacher because that would be a violation of the 1st Amendment which the government cannot do.

The government is not allowed to censor your "Straight Pride" t-shirt because they don't like the political message. Again, the 1st Amendment is the place to look.

The government cannot search your backpack without your consent because as an American citizen you have the right to be secure in your papers as per the Bill of Rights. You can look there.

You seem to think of "a school" as a separate entity. It is not, it and its administrators are agents of the government and are bound by the Constitution. Very simple concept.

While you're at it, find me the part that authorizes them in the first place...

On this point I have no argument with you. But just because this is so does not mean change the defacto reality of their existance and does not mean that the Bill of Rights does not restrict their activities.

Oh, and they can complain all they want. And be ignored, too.

Only if the government violates the Constitution. Should everyone just shut up and try not to rattle their chains?

No one has the right to be heard.

Bull crap. Every person has a God-given right to free speech.

If the local school board (probably elected) says the policy stays, it stays.

Bull crap. The young man who put up the Operation Enduring Freedom photos took his school administration to court and successfully asserted his free speech rights. I have no idea where you come up with the idea that local school boards have some immunity from the Constitution.

And you can stop leeching my tax money to provide an education your kids don't deserve (that's a rhetorical "you")...

BTW, I teach in the public schools, and would like nothing better than to see them abolished. Education is a privilege, not a right (regardless of what the Warren Court said). But, so long as they exist, don't whine to me because you are too selfish to sacrifice your third car or widescreen cable TV in order to put your kids in a school with policies you like (another rhetorical "you").

I don't know, it sounds like you are ending up with my tax money on your paycheck rather than the other way around.