I’m not talking about standing up for Constitutional principles. That’s a given. Just the crap that consumes the lives of bureaucrats with petty-foggery and piss-ant rules. For example:
A school district violated a fourth-grader’s constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection by refusing to allow her to distribute “personal statement” fliers carrying a religious message, a federal judge has ruled.
The Liverpool Central School District in upstate New York based its restrictions on “fear or apprehension of disturbance, which is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression,” Chief U.S. District Judge Norman Mordue wrote in a 46-page decision Friday.
Liverpool officials said at the time there was “a substantial probability” that other parents and students might misunderstand and presume the district endorsed the religious statements in the flier, according to the lawsuit.
“The court cannot say the danger that children would misperceive the endorsement of religion is any greater than the danger that they would perceive a hostility toward religion as a result of the district’s denial,” Mordue wrote.
This kind of crap has nothing to do with “political correctness” or any other of the meaningless pseudo-semantic rants from mutant cranks. It’s all about bureaucratic legalism gone wild, endemic to a social system with standards set by fear-bound political sphincters.
So how do you really feel?
Political correctness will be the end of us all
A very wise man once said (Abe Lincoln )
(paraphrased)
You can please all of the people some of the time
you can please some of the people all of the time
but you cant please all of the people all of the time
lean that and forget about political correctness just do what you believe is correct and stand by it ,because some one some where will always be offended
I find it funny that the school officials would be worried that it endorsed the flier. (and face a possible backlash)
A fourth grader can easily use a computer and inkjet to make a professional looking flier.
Then how can the other students & parents tell the difference with other similar fliers grade schools print out fliers themselves in large numbers?
When both my kids where in grade school, I’d easily have a quarter inch pile of teacher printed material to sift through, in different colored paper.
Would be easy to think this kid’s flier was “from the school” without an official disclaimer on it.
Would a 4th grader think of adding a disclaimer??? Of course not.
Hum, the picture from this post changed from the movie Zardoz to Trainspotting. Somebody is playing mind games…
How many of you would feel this was a good thing if it was a “personal statement” flier about sex, Satanism, Islam, or birth control? A school is not a private forum for you or your children to prostitute your religious beliefs. It is a tax payer funded institution for education. Not a church.
Ask yourself. Why did this child feel the need to pass out this flier on school grounds? Why not walk the neighborhood instead. Why not just give them to her friends when she went out to play with them? My guess is they were either looking for a lawsuit. Don’t put the blame on the school system for doing their job.
This judges interpretation of the law is wrong and this decision will be overturned mark my words.
What 4th grader would come up with the idea of passing out leaflets at school? This is clearly parents using their child as a tool.
I’m sure this whole brouhaha will be really good for the child. All his little playmates will think he is so cool! Sounds like the parents hung a “Kick Me Hard” sign on their kids back.
#6, you beat me to it. That’s exactly what is going on.
“The flier, about the size of a greeting card, started out: “Hi! My name is Michaela and I would like to tell you about my life and how Jesus Christ gave me a new one.”
Have another child hand out a similar flier, but change “Jesus Christ” to “Satan”, and see what Michaela’s mother does then.
It’s just another attempt to get religion into public schools. If Michaela has a right to distribute fliers of her beliefs, then the teacher does as well.
Please understand the Educrat Mindset: “How can I avoid causing myself any trouble?” Once one places one’s personal interests first, discriminating against a child is easy. Most parents won’t (or can’t) fight back, so your ruling stands and your ass is covered – to hell with the Constitution. And if you get caught, the taxpayer will bail you out.
#6 is exactly correct.
This is very interesting – the perennial tension between free speech and those who dislike fliers in the school proselytizing for Satan or atheism or what ever it was. But jeez, Eideard, why you gotta be so mean to us mutant cranks?
#12…TJGeezer…..Eideard is obviously suffering from a severe case of **mutant crank** envy!!