![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
mrbogey.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
talkpoliticshttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/11/BA2N1LU0HC.DTL
Okay, I'm okay with a school banning things to prevent violent behavior. But we need to be as shallow as possible in the application of such a policy because when you've set the bar so high you've set the basis for banning whatever you want to?
With this ruling, what prevents a school from banning whatever they want under the guise of preventing conflict. Or to put it another way, what's to prevent a principal in Alabama from sending a kid wearing an MLK Jr shirt home on Confederate Memorial Day, or making Muslim students not wear anything conspicuously religious on 9/11?
Because I'm just blown away that a school in America would ban an American flag during a foreign holiday.
A Morgan Hill high school principal reasonably feared violence on campus when he saw a group of students wearing American flags on their shirts on Cinco de Mayo, and he did not violate their freedom of speech by telling them to turn the shirts inside out or go home, a federal judge has ruled.
Okay, I'm okay with a school banning things to prevent violent behavior. But we need to be as shallow as possible in the application of such a policy because when you've set the bar so high you've set the basis for banning whatever you want to?
With this ruling, what prevents a school from banning whatever they want under the guise of preventing conflict. Or to put it another way, what's to prevent a principal in Alabama from sending a kid wearing an MLK Jr shirt home on Confederate Memorial Day, or making Muslim students not wear anything conspicuously religious on 9/11?
Because I'm just blown away that a school in America would ban an American flag during a foreign holiday.
(no subject)
Date: 13/11/11 05:11 (UTC)That reminds me of when my best friend invited me to her house for Seder a few years in a row when I was in middle/high school. It was me (a Christian), her and her family, and some family friends, including an African-American convert to Judaism (via marriage), a rabbi, and a whole slew of Taiwanese exchange students (like, 15 of them). They had one or two students staying at their house but they invited the whole program.
One part I really liked was the place setting. I went over early to help set up, and my friend's dad is kind of a stickler when it comes to Jewish tradition, and he had to have the place settings just so, with everything in the right spot.
But then he pulled out a bunch of chopsticks, and set one at each spot. =3
It was just neat, getting to take part in all of their traditions.