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Students do not give up their 1st Amendment rights when they enter the classroom. This truth has been challenged in recent years by forces in society who seem bent on making young Americans as delicate and needy as possible by the time they graduate high school and college.
A lawsuit in Oregon put the 1st Amendment to the test. A student was removed from class and suspended for wearing a pro-border wall t-shirt and refusing to cover it up. The school district ended up settling for $25,000 to cover legal fees and an apology by the principle.
A student was suspended for wearing a border wall shirt. It cost the district $25,000 and an apology.
Addison Barnes, who graduated this year from Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Ore., outside Portland, filed a lawsuit in federal court in May alleging that the school violated his First Amendment rights when it punished him for wearing the shirt to a politics class discussion about immigration. The shirt said “Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.,” and “The Wall Just Got 10 Feet Taller.”
The controversial shirt was likely intended by both the manufacturer and Barnes to stir up feelings on both sides of the political spectrum. Whether one agrees with the message is irrelevant, though. As an American, he has the right to express his opinions in this way.
The settlement is being heralded as a victory for American rights in general and student rights in particular. We’ll take it. However, it would have been nice if it could have come in the form of a ruling rather than a settlement. Setting specific precedent for use in future cases only happens if a judge makes a ruling.
There will always be cases like these popping up as long as liberals continue their attacks on our freedoms. Unfortunately, it isn’t just the liberals nowadays. For the sake of pressing an agenda, even many conservative lawmakers have been attacking our rights when they get in the way of their master plan (see Patriot Act). It is imperative that every freedom-loving American band together to apply a true federalist approach to governance, just as our founders intended.
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