I just read this one too and wanted to share with everyone. Just what exactly are our kids learning in schools I sometimes ask myself. This banner is awful and shouldn't be allowed in a school. Read this and tell me if you agree with me on this one.

Supreme Court hears 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case

At issue: Free speech versus schools rights to restrict disruptive behavior

WASHINGTON - Scores of students waited outside the Supreme Court on Monday for a chance to listen to arguments in a test of student speech rights - a high school senior's display of a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."

The message connected drug use and religion in a nonsensical phrase that was designed to provoke, and it got Joseph Frederick into a lot of trouble.

After he unfurled his 14-foot "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner on a Juneau, Alaska, street one winter morning in 2002, Frederick got a 10-day school suspension. Five years later, he has a date Monday at the Supreme Court in what is shaping up as an important test of constitutional rights.

At Issue:
Students do not leave their right to free speech at the school door, the high court said in a Vietnam-era case over an anti-war protest by high school students.

But neither can students be disruptive or lewd or interfere with a school's basic educational mission, the court also has said.

A very silly post to drive into the ground around which to make one's free speech case, but it is free speech none the less.

 

I'm watching this closely. 

This is a tough subject...

As a school teacher, I always tell my students that there is no such thing as freedom of speech in the classroom.  If something is rude, vulgar, or generally offensive to anyone, it is not allowed in the classroom.

Technically freedom of speech is not a reality, even out of school.  I was actually appalled that a military general (I believe) was forced to apologize for saying that homosexuality is immoral; that's not freedom of speech.  Who cares if people agree with him or don't agree with him, that is his opinion and he should have the freedom to say so.  We should all have the freedom to say a lot of things...but the truth is, we just don't.

Does freedom of speech really exist in this country any more?