[motoman]

“What basic civil right did you mean, by the way — if you meant free speech, no. The courts are wrong in saying that students have free speech rights in school. You cannot read such a right into the First Amendment, it is a pernicious invention that has helped destabilize the school systems.”

Schools do not have the priviliage of defining what is considered to be free speech.

The courts do.

And when a school oversteps their boundry with respect to controlling forms of free speech, the courts step in. Just as they did in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969).

[bvw]

Do you think 1969 was a good year for real civil liberties, or for fake ones? What that ruling did was improperly strip authority from the school Principal, and put it in the hands of bureaucratic regulators and the courts and litigators. It acted to hobble the Principal's command authority and the ability to hold it to account. Yes -- it lessened to hold the Principal to account! Thereafter was the rule of fear of lawsuit and regulation! That ruling lessened liberty and increased tyranny.