[allmendream]

The more that issues like this come up the more I embrace the legal theory of Justice Thomas in regards to the 1st Amendment and being a kid in school. Inasmuch as I embrace the Constitution and its rights entirely, school kids in the context of being a student in school do NOT have 1st Amendment rights to freedom of speech or ‘expression’ in a way that precludes them being told to cease and desist or go home.

Banning the picture of a gun is a stupid policy......but it is the policy. The issue of freedom of expression would come in if a boy was told that “Give War a Chance” on a T-shirt with a Marine emblem was verboten, but a “Give Peace a Chance” T-Shirt (or “No Blood for Oil”) was allowed and even encouraged.

[wintertime]

in a way that precludes them being told to cease and desist or go home.

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What happens to the child who goes home and REFUSES to return? What happens to his parents?

The fundamental problem here is that government schools are prisons for children who have committed no crime. They are bullied and threaten with armed police action by a government and then told to SHUT UP!

Sorry! But this is a First Amendment abomination!

Get rid of government schooling!

[Balding_Eagle]

Banning the picture of a gun is a stupid policy......but it is the policy.

That's not true.

Banning the picture of a gun was the principals interpetation of a vague policy. Any common sense reading, and every legal reading of this case will differ from the principals reading.

The kid will win in court.