I’d like to say this is not the exception and more the norm, but we know it’s not, and not just from schools. Cities like Nashua exist to use government resources and waste taxpayers’ dollars to defend their partisan personal interests. Governmental bodies, flush with other people’s cash, bonded staff, and large insurance policies, especially the further left you lean, tend to let their ideological proclivities determine whether they will subject taxpayers to the costs of expensive lawsuits.
They don’t hang out with or know anyone who disagrees with them, typically, and as a group, they actively work to dehumanize their political opponents, so why would anyone dare disagree with their position, and why would we listen to them or their complaints? They must be right. But someone in a San Diego, California, School District caught a whiff of something in the wind that gave them pause, but not at first.
The school told the student’s guardians he was “directing harassment, threats or intimidation toward district staff or other students” by posting “We ❤️ I.C.E. – Real Americans” flyers, The Times of San Diego reported.
Torrey Pines cited state law prohibiting speech that “incites pupils so as to create a clear and present danger,” district policy prohibiting “conduct that creates a hostile or intimidating environment,” and the SCOTUS “fighting words” doctrine from 1942, the Times reported.
The district suspended a student caught posting the fliers, but not for long.
A California school district avoided a FIRE lawsuit this week by expunging its suspension of a student caught posting flyers that praise Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to anti-ICE posters featuring lewd slogans that were carried by hundreds of students during a school walkout, for which no one was punished.
Though it didn’t send a “formal demand letter” to Torrey Pines High School in the San Dieguito Union High School District, “FIRE’s litigators made prompt and immediate document requests and the school district understood that the family had retained FIRE’s litigation attorneys as counsel in the matter,” a FIRE spokesperson told Just the News.
Offensive anti-ICE protests and slogans are okay, but pro-ICE flyers in a common area are not. How offensive?
The viewpoint discrimination is strong with this one, and is it safe to say none of them have friends or family members who are victims of criminal aliens? Probably, but peer pressure makes kids do dumb things. Who wouldn’t hold a sign to impress that cute girl or guy, who is probably doing it for the same reason? And oh yeah, we got permission to skip class if we do this.
Student protests about things unrelated to the school itself are pretty lame and even more meaningless than the paid protests engineered by the deep-pocketed anti-American pro-China left. But they have a right to protest and speak out. The Constitution protects that. What it doesn’t protect is the government or things funded by it, and it opposes them based on partisan self-interest.
