We already have a Foaming Free Speech brouhaha in MS, brought about by administrators deciding all discussion of the president-elect should be banned from the classrom or the halls.
I don't claim for a moment that the administrative ban on discussing this person (or any person) isn't stupid and abysmally ill-advised. All it's likely to do is have exactly opposite the desired effect, while whipping up emotion on every side. From three decades of experience, best that it be left up to the individual classroom teacher to control. The method? Let the kids talk it out. Given the attention spans and stamina for any topic of high schoolers.....about 20 minutes. But, after all, we are talking about school administrators, so this whole tempest in a teapot may (literally) become a federal case.
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