From WorldNetDaily:
High school students from across the nation, claiming they feel like second-class citizens after being denied First Amendment rights by school administrators for quietly participating in an annual pro-life demonstration, are fighting back in court.
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have filed complaints against a number of school districts on behalf of students who participated in Stand True Ministry's "3rd Annual Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity."
"Students don't shed their rights at the schoolhouse door," said ADF-allied attorney Tom Marcelle of Albany, N.Y., who serves as co-counsel in M.G. v. Bush and Shenendehowa Central School District, the most recent filing. "The Supreme Court, on more than one occasion, has said that the First Amendment applies to students. As long as the speech is respectful and not disruptive of the school, the students are allowed to engage in it," Marcelle told WND.
Approximately 1,400 middle school and high schools participated in the national pro-life day of silence. Many passed out leaflets between classes, wore pro-life t-shirts and duct tape over their mouths with the word "Life" written on it.
But the peaceful observation left a sour taste in the mouth of some administrators and several students are paying the price for being so "controversial."
I guess the government schools could say that these pro-life students were disrupting the success of the secular humanist propaganda that the students are exposed to in the government schools. Of course the counter to that is the government is violating the First Amendment’s establishment clause. See the links at my Public Education section of my sidebar to learn about how the government is establishing the secular humanist religion through public education. That is why they need more money. It takes far more money to indoctrinate than it does to educate.
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