Stan Geiger

Education and the Constitution

Educators need to be slapped down and put in their places.

Just the other day I wrote of a school district that put remote-controlled cameras in the bedrooms of teenagers. If educators haven't yet been informed, I'll tell them now: kiddie porn is illegal.

Now comes another story, this one from Illinois. A young man was handed a 5-day suspension because he posted a negative comment about a teacher on his Facebook page. The young man posted his comment on his own time, in his own home, using his own computer.

There is a reason the First Amendment is the first amendment. When a citizen has no right to criticize his or her government with impunity, that citizen has no rights at all.

Public schools are public enterprises. If we lose the right to criticize them, we lose everything.

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