Jonn Lilye
This Ain’t Hell
11/11/2011
I’m sure you remember the students who were suspended from school when they wore American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo last year at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, CA. Well, federal judge, James Ware has decided that the school was justified in suspending the students’ First Amendment rights, according to Kate Hicks at Town Hall;
The judge determined that the Morgan Hill Unified School District did not violate the First Amendment and said that concerns by school officials over possible violence justified censoring the pro-American message.
“The school officials reasonable forecast that Plaintiff’s clothing could cause a substantial disruption with school activities, and therefore did not violate the standard set forth – by requiring that Plaintiff’s change,” the judge wrote.
I wonder if the learned judge would have reached the same conclusion had it been students wearing Mexican flag T-shirts who were suspended on, say, the Fourth of July.
