Freedom Of Speech In Public Schools

Freedom of speech has come under a lot of scrutiny in America. Questions of who gets the right to participate in freedom of speech and who decides have basically become the underlying argument. Especially since the start of football season where one player decided to take a peaceful stand. 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to sit during the national anthem. No one really had a problem until he explained the reason behind his actions. Mr. Kaepernick explained he couldn’t stand for a country that clearly had its citizens undergoing a lot of scrutiny and injustice at the hands of law enforcement. His actions received a lot of backlash, but it also received appreciation from all over the US. Even though everyone in America is granted
When students are forced to participate in activities they have no agreement with? Chaos happens. Students attending these public schools are 16, 17, 18 year old young adults who should be able to decide what they wish to believe in. This issue is important to college students at this institution, because policies requiring students to forget their voice is a policy that has potential of destroying everything. Many students on this campus, speak out all the time on issues they find important to their spheres of life-social, public and private. To say someone has the right to speak but only about what’s prohibited is hinting at a dictatorship where censorship is more important than social justice. In more ways than one, it becomes a slippery slope. Policies like the ones enforced in Florida high schools makes assumptions the average person cannot decide what they want to believe in or what to take a stand against. This same policy can be seen during the administrative reign of Adolf Hitler, citizens were required to show patriotism towards his philosophies, laws, policies etc. If someone didn’t do what was considered the norm for that society his or her lives were then put in danger. If one school district can put restraints over a simple and peaceful protest on
There is no age limit to when the constitution comes into play either. I find it interesting how the gestures of protest are scrutinized instead of the reason behind the actual protest. What surprised me the most about this article was the level of confidence the officials had in limiting the rights of the students. There was never really a consideration for what they might have wanted or