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A 1st grader's free speech case goes to federal court, and loses.
reason.com
Remarkable. I think we have an innocent child, innocent drawing, a mother who took offense, and an overreaction by the principal. It appears he told the little girl that she was racist and wrong for suggesting all lives matter. She was punished for it.
I agree with the opinion that this was unlikely to have been disruptive to education in the classroom. It doesn't note the behavior or reaction of the girl who received the drawing....just the parent who was upset and felt her child was being harassed and should be left alone. The trauma of the suggestion that all lives matter in 1st grade apparently.
This is the legacy of BLM imo. It's one example of the ways it created racial division....the rejection of the idea that all lives matter....so much so that even an innocent 1st grade girl's drawing of equality was turned into something to be outraged over.
For those outside the US...this was apparently after a lesson about MLK Jr. 1st graders are typically 6 years old. The white girl who drew the offensive picture, was supposedly trying to comfort her black friend.
I think they both ended up with a very different lesson.
Thoughts?
"Black Lives Mat[t]er" + "Any Life" Drawing "Not Protected by the First Amendment" in First Grade
Such speech can be found to be "impermissible harassment," the court says, partly because "deference to schoolteachers is especially appropriate today, where, increasingly, what is harmful or innocent speech is in the eye of the beholder."
reason.com
Remarkable. I think we have an innocent child, innocent drawing, a mother who took offense, and an overreaction by the principal. It appears he told the little girl that she was racist and wrong for suggesting all lives matter. She was punished for it.
I agree with the opinion that this was unlikely to have been disruptive to education in the classroom. It doesn't note the behavior or reaction of the girl who received the drawing....just the parent who was upset and felt her child was being harassed and should be left alone. The trauma of the suggestion that all lives matter in 1st grade apparently.
This is the legacy of BLM imo. It's one example of the ways it created racial division....the rejection of the idea that all lives matter....so much so that even an innocent 1st grade girl's drawing of equality was turned into something to be outraged over.
For those outside the US...this was apparently after a lesson about MLK Jr. 1st graders are typically 6 years old. The white girl who drew the offensive picture, was supposedly trying to comfort her black friend.
I think they both ended up with a very different lesson.
Thoughts?
