Fort Worth student serves suspension for saying ‘homosexuality is wrong’

[chaya]

FT. WORTH, Texas A 14-year-old high school student in Fort Worth was suspended after remarking to a classmate in his German language class that he believes homosexuality is wrong.

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[subversive_kiwi]

[gr_julian]

This is the best gif ever.

[raised_eyebrows]

“Students don’t lose their first amendment rights just because they go in the schoolhouse door,”

But they do.

[echoandsway]

There's longstanding precedent for this not being the case:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/studentspeech.htm

What Krause said is a paraphrase of this:
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. This has been the unmistakable holding of this Court for almost 50 years. From the majority opinion in Tinker v. Des Moines.

[checkerdandy]

Bong hits 4 Jesus :(

[echoandsway]

I will not lie, reading that phrase in a SCOTUS opinion made me snicker.

[iamrosalita]

Yes, you pretty much do lose your right to free speech when you walk through the schoolhouse door just like you lose it when you walk into the workplace. Better get used to it.

[msloserrific]

Right? He's good at math and reading, so he can't have a homophobic bone in his body!

Idgi

[bathstone]

Omfg, I hate the glorification of honors students. I was an honors student, but they're capable of the same stupid shit that all teens pull. Honors student =/= a good person, and some people forget that fact.

[sephystabbity]

So true. So many of them are awful, it must come from being asspatted so much. And I say that as an honor student myself.

[chimbleysweep]

tbh even if he is telling the truth, and if he even WHISPERED his opinion to his friend and friend alone, idgaf that he was punished. Good. No free passes for bigotry.