[YoungHickey]

It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"They should be there to learn, not to debate."


LOL!!!!!!!!

[politicalwit]

"It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate."

hmmmm, I was on the debate team in school.

[Clara Lou]

It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate.
Exactly. The issuing of pamphlets on such a debated topic would result in substantial disruption of education on the campus. There's plenty of case law to support this decision.

[spunkets]

"It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate."

The mat'ls weren't distributed during class time and there was no indication the matl's were being force fed. The school bureaucrats and the judge interfered in what is essentially discourse between the students and perhaps faculty on their own time. Also, the matl. was of an educational nature and unarguably of worth regarding moral values.

[nmh]

"It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate."

Indeed it is a school.

They should be there to "learn" and part of their world includes abortion.

You're right, there should be NO debate on abortion when they are allowed to "learn" what an abortion is and ideally what an abortion looks like - then, they will have "learned" something and there will be no need for "debate".

[nmh]

How do you justify the "day of silence" in schools across the country to pay coerced homage to gays?

[beezdotcom]

It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate.

Reminds me of a teacher I knew, who, after being informed by a student of what SHE thought the correct interpretation of a poem was (and the student was indeed correct) subsequently replied:

"Missy, you are not here to THINK, you are here to LEARN."

[Gondring]

It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate.

O! You right-wing loonie, claiming we shouldn't politicize our public schools and suggesting our students should spend more time on studies than they do on activism!

</sarc>

Be careful...the faux conservatives don't like that stance too much.

[topher]

They should be there to learn, not to debate.

So they should be taught to be barefoot and pregnant!

Most schools have a debating team, and it is considered an honor to be on some schools debating teams...

Maybe football is a more important institution at most schools and is part of the learning process.