American Schools Need Flattening Too

[Major Variola (ret)]

So ROTC recruiting uniformed american murders on high school campuses
is not disruptive, but a t-shirt is.  How about those adverts reminding
male fodder
to register for the draft?  Fly that flag upside down.


At 10:06 PM 11/2/01 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A judge ruled Thursday that a 15-year-old
sophomore
>cannot form an anarchy club or wear T-shirts opposing the U.S. bombing
of
>Afghanistan because it would disrupt school. Katie Sierra was suspended

>from Sissonville High School for three days for promoting the club. She

>was also told she could not wear T-shirts with messages such as: "When
I
>saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered

>sense of national security. God Bless America."
>
>In a complaint filed with her mother, Sierra argued her right to free
>speech was being denied.
>
>Circuit Court Judge James Stucky agreed that free speech is "sacred"
but
>he found that such rights are "tempered by the limitations that they
...
>not disrupt the educational process."
>
>[Congress shall make NO LAW abridging the freedom of NON-DISRUPTIVE
> speech (Guffaw)]
>
>Sierra said she'll pursue the dispute. "I don't want war. I'm not for
>Afghanistan," Sierra said. "I think that what we're doing to them is
just
>as bad as what they did to us, and I think it needs to be stopped."
>
>James Withrow, lawyer for the Kanawha County Board of Education, argued

>that an anarchy club was inappropriate because students "do not feel
that
>their school is a safe place anymore." "Anarchy is the antithesis of
what
>we believe should be in schools," Withrow said.
>
>Sierra's attorney, Roger Forman, said she is "being punished for
>expressing her opinion."

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All that fresh air, rations getting low... time to sporulate..