Free speech dead in American Schools

So twice now this week we have heard of cases where educators are using threats and now suspensions to teach our children that freedom of speech is dead in American schools. Many of you have seen the YouTube video of the student asking his teacher for fairness when speaking about presidential candidates. Though I disagree with the foul language used in the classroom by both students and teachers, I condemn this mind control by killing free speech. Now not all speech is allowable.

Our children should be instructed what is legal or illegal, positive or negative, sedition or patriotic. Yet in this instant this person choose to use a child's ignorance of the legal system to get him to believe that you can't speak negatively of our leaders. The founding father's rollover in their graves hearing the stupidity of this person. So we have to thank technology and the young man for sensing that this was an  injustice  and posting it online, bravo!

The next incident occurred at the very high school I attended. Longwood High school in Middle Island, New York. Though I admit not knowing both sides of the issue. I find it a slippery slope to quell speech in this case, artistic speech, by suspending a student for producing an anti bullying video. This has put Longwood into the national spot light and I have to use the cliche where there is smoke there is fire.

This young lady created a film that portrayed a young ladies suicide death after being severely bullied. Instead of applauding this youngster for her burden towards the weak, they hand her a suspension for causing a "reaction" in students at Longwood. Is that not what the founding fathers sought in our fledgling democracy? The freedom to influence, the freedom to criticize, the freedom to expose.  Shame on Longwood for not defending the Bill of Rights. Shame on Longwood for jumping on the political correctness bandwagon.