Christian values? Obama’s a Christian by his own sayso, and the main line Protestant sects are all gung ho over homosexual clergy and marriage and such. G-dly values we can agree on, but brand them with an establishment and we have gone astray because the establishments of men go astray.
Nor is disrespecting proper authority helpful. A Principal has the proper authority on his or her sayso to say that a particular way of expressing oneself, in speech, dress or behavior is disruptive and can not be allowed. To my understanding that proper authority is very broad and non-reviewable in particular cases. As a general policy one may appeal to the school board to have the policy or the Principal changed. But that ALONE is the proper level of review and the citizen’s check on an out of control district — by appeal to, election and recall of board members.
Individually a student has recourse for acts of criminality, or torts against the student — but the maintenance of order in a classroom within the a customary standards of the time is never a tort. Individually a student and the parents can chose to switch schools to move to another district, to homeschool. You are not without recourse against bad teaching in a district.
It’s hard to impossible, in my view, to justify undermining the proper authority of Principals and Teachers by the imposition of the threat of court review of any action they take that is meant in their professional opinion to improve the situation in the classroom, and which falls within general standards of the time.
Tell it to a judge.
The courts don’t appear to agree with your opinion that public schools have a right to total control over what can be said or expressed by students and teachers, after giving themselves complete latitude to spew their own biased message. If they simply would stick to the 3 R’s and stop pushing normalization of homosexuality, sex, revisionist history, and other moral relativistic garbage, they would’nt find themselves in court at every turn.
This goes beyond bad teaching. Our schools have crossed too many lines involving subjects that have nothing to do with the three R’s. And because they partake in these social engineering escapades, students and parents will respond in accordance with their free speech rights.
If you’re bothered by a kid wearing a pro-life t-shirt to school, then don’t defend renegade public school teachers and officials who abuse their authority with anti-christian tactics.
This is what you get when God, prayer, and Christianity are not only removed from our public schools, but attacked and repudidated as well by teachers and school officials - the vast majority of which have tilted far to the left during the last 30 years.
I look forward to many more of these lawsuits, wherever and whenever the need arises.