Posted on 06/08/2013 7:45:18 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
A Texas high school silenced its Valedictorian’s microphone during his speech when he diverted from his pre-approved remarks and instead spoke about the Constitution.
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You go back and change the wording of something I wrote....how Orwellian! But end of story....the kid didn’t get his way....too bad.
****The beatings took place when?****
No beatings just censorship.
But you seem willing to beat this guy up for being “Some high school kid”...
This story is about the government (school) depriving forced citizen attendees (students) of their free speech rights.
Was his speech substantively correct? Most 18 year olds (even class valedictorians - especially class valedictorians) often talk out of their @ss when it comes to matters like the USC.
I don’t know what is happening in Texas, but it seems the last 12 months has gone down hill with regards to religious freedom, and other rights that we have under the constitution. Stories like these are starting to pop up quite a bit. I want the days back where the only thing that Texas wrote about was energy (oil), Friday Night Football and maybe an occasional illegal immigration story.
If I were a High School in Texas, why I might just be wrong then...
Ya think anyone buys that?
Most of these "Kids" are old enough to serve in the military.
Who do ya think pays the bloated salaries and pensions these teachers and useless administrators receive? Where do ya think the cash came from to build the schools and furnish them? Who do ya think bought that microphone?
The schools own nothing...
Did these over paid teachers and administrators ever hear of the *First* Amendment?
Maybe these government teachers and administrators should read up on the Bill or Rights and the U.S. Constitution and stop with their controlling authoritarian doctrine.
Precisely - as the rules come to violate basic constitutional rights they are then rendered ineffectual.
However, high schools have never been completely open venues for unlimited speech.
This story is about the government (school) depriving forced citizen attendees (students) of their free speech rights.
Let me pose these questions:
Does the classroom teacher have the authority to take action against a student who is being profane and obscene during a class? If so, should they have that authority? If they exercise that authority, have they violated the student’s right of free speech?
Then let me say this:
I am willing to bet most on this thread were delighted in a, "score one for the Gipper" sort of way, to hear the student go off script and recite the Lords Prayer. Further, that many of us realize, or at least sense, the nation is at a dangerous and potentially bloody cross roads in its history. Some of us may even believe it is important to maintain our traditional structures until such time as they are obviously ineffective and the moment has arrived for a serious return to the Constitution.
As I suggested upthread, the school presently has the authority to do what it did; I would have applauded what this student tried to do if he had been accepted at Columbia; it was silly of him to do it while planning to attend the USNA.
Odd that you would be complaining about censorship given your support for killing the Valedictorian’s microphone.
Let;s hope so, we really need to teach our children the appropriate use of civil disobedience.
“I am not kidding this time...”
I’ve been saying every year that there is no way we can live with liberals and one of us has to “go” for the sake of the country. I guess I’m too right-wing for FR..
Frog -
I’m not confused over anything.
If the Navy doesn’t want men like this, then the Navy does us no good.
You idiot.
The school is not a ‘homeowner’, and the students aren’t ‘guests’. The parents paid for that education, and the student excelled. If you want to think in terms of ownership, the school belongs to the parents and students. Schools are being paid to provide a service. Schools must meet the expectations of parents and students, and they must not attempt to eliminate our rights.
No, the public's microphone, the public's forum, the public's approval.
The school has no money without the public. They are not a private individual or enterprise. They are a government agency.
/johnny
They steal that money, all things considered. I wouldn't give one stinking dime to the public school system if I didn't have to...let the parents pay.
I’d love to come help balance it out (I’m about as rabbit right wing as they come) but I am strange. I like snow.
It’s the smart ones the left has to worry the most about. The drones always fall right in line.
Plus, the pro homo speech would have been blessed by the school.
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