"Rick Ayers, a retired teacher...said educating students about offensive language is preferable to policing their speech."
I'm still trying to parse this one. Does it mean "we're trying to make them internalize the censorship we want to impose so we won't get caught imposing it and run afoul of that pesky 1st Amendment stuff"?
Or does it mean "we're telling them what not to say so that we can justify punishing them if they say it, regardless of that pesky 1st Amendment stuff"?
Somebody help me out here...
So it was ok to ask a girl if she had 10 moms because she's Mormon, but not ok to say "that's so gay." That's soooo frickin gay.
"Rick Ayers, a retired teacher...said educating students about offensive language is preferable to policing their speech."
I'm still trying to parse this one. Does it mean "we're trying to make them internalize the censorship we want to impose so we won't get caught imposing it and run afoul of that pesky 1st Amendment stuff"?
The education of children is fundamentally a moral, ethical, cultural, and religious exercise. So...yes!..Of course the teachers are attempting get the children to "internalize" the censorship.
I don't think most teachers know enough about the First Amendment to even consider applying the principles to their job. I doubt that more than a few have ever considered that government schools and the First Amendment are utterly incompatible.
Or does it mean "we're telling them what not to say so that we can justify punishing them if they say it, regardless of that pesky 1st Amendment stuff"?
Again, I doubt that most teachers know enough about the First Amendment to realize that government schools and the First Amendment are utterly incompatible. I doubt they have given any thought to government punishment of children without constitutional protections, either. For instance, I doubt that this girl was given access to a lawyer, or advised of her right not to speak.
Somebody help me out here...
Solution: Get government out of the education business. Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.