No Free Speech in Schools — Even When it is Offered

Posted on June 8, 2007

A school essay writing task was to write a stream-of-consciousness essay: One where you write whatever comes into your head without it being criticized. High school student Allen Lee, an 18-year-old straight-A student, went to his creative writing class at Cary-Grove High School and did as he was told. But his essay mentioned guns and shooting.

So despite his having done just what he was told, the school called the police and had him arrested and charged with “disorderly conduct”. His future is now on hold and may have been permanently damaged. His case has yet to come to court and will probably be thrown out. Given that he was NOT engaged in “disorderly conduct” and given the first amendment he can scarcely be convicted for uttering his thoughts when asked to do so.

But official perversion of the law has already caused Lee a lot of harm regardless of the eventual court verdict. Details here and some good comments here.

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One Response to “No Free Speech in Schools — Even When it is Offered”

Brujo Blanco on June 9th, 2007 10:25 pm

Let it not be said that we had an opportunity to overreact and failed to do so. This brings to mind the old Soviet Re-education camps. Will it follow that such politically incorrect people will have to undergo such indoctination. Some might say that it is farfetched, however, there are some schools that have such education for the politically incorrect and they call it sentitivity training. One of the sins identified by todays left is the sin of being offensive and/or disturbing others.