Dunno how many of you have heard about this (I only did the other day). Seems a school district in Alaska suspended a student for holding up a banner reading BONG HITS 4 JESUS at an Olympic torch relay - an event not sponsored or supervised in any way by the school. The student was performing a totally legal act, expressing his right to free speech on his own time. And he got suspended.

As they should have, the student's family sued the school district and won. An appeals court sided with the student as well. Now, Kenneth Starr (of clinton-monica fame) has filed a petition to the Supreme Court of the US on behalf of the school district. I doubt they even CONSIDER looking at this case, and if they do, the appeals decision should be upheld by a wide margin.

... I mean, how can a public school district POSSIBLY claim the right to abridge students' right to free speech AWAY from school and on his or her own time??? You can say what you will about values, but I'm sorry; just because a person lives in a certain school district doesn't mean they must uphold the "values" of that school system twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY, never has, and never will!


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hossua34 Reviewed by hossua34 on . "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case - what a joke Dunno how many of you have heard about this (I only did the other day). Seems a school district in Alaska suspended a student for holding up a banner reading BONG HITS 4 JESUS at an Olympic torch relay - an event not sponsored or supervised in any way by the school. The student was performing a totally legal act, expressing his right to free speech on his own time. And he got suspended. As they should have, the student's family sued the school district and won. An appeals court sided with Rating: 5