With all the attention in the media about public schools across the nation allowing, or even encouraging to have students participate in the protest march on Wed. March 14th - the one month anniversary of the Parkland High School massacre by the confessed killer of 17 of his classmates - free speech apparently doesn't apply to everyone, just liberals and those who agree with their views.
A teacher at a high school held a discussion with her class about this topic and, for the sake of discussion of the topic, she posed the alternative view question; couching it terms of students protesting abortion, since the logic follows that if schools condone one cause, they then should allow protest walkouts for all causes.
The school district put her on paid administrative leave. If I were her, I'd hire a lawyer and take it as far as necessary; even to the Supreme Court. The
school districts need to understand that just because some parents are
offended by an opposing view, a teacher's free speech rights still
exist. After all, conservatives don't go whining to school boards,
demanding they be fired, just because of the views their mostly liberal
teachers espouse all the time.
Visit this link and watch the news video of this for further details of how public schools are driven, not by what our Constitution tells us ALL citizens should enjoy the right of, but by only one political view... theirs!
It will certainly be interesting to learn what the outcome of this will be in the end. As a former teacher in public school, I understand all too well the disturbing situation this teacher is in.
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