Recently I received a call from my son's middle school informing me that he was head butted by another student. Since he was the one head butted and it was agreed by everyone involved that he did not strike back or act violently towards the other student, I was sure that the other student(s) would be suspended as required by school policy. However, this did not happen.
Instead I was told that this individual who had been harassing my son for 3 days and had threaten to “jump” him with 3 others would not be suspended. I was also told by school administration that though this individual had gone looking for my son to threaten him this person would not be suspended. Instead, my son would be suspended for saying something to this individual which the individual and his friends found to be offensive.
Never mind that this same person had spent 3 days calling my son various names including, “faggot”, “monkey” and other derogatory names, It was my son who would be suspended for his one statement even though this statement was free of curse words, name calling and racial slurs. My utter surprise turned to indignation and anger.
I asked the school vice principal why this was so? It turns out that the hand book limits free speech to such a degree that if a student says anything that anyone else might find offensive they will be suspended. What happened to the US constitution I asked? The reply was simple but shocking,”but we're a school”
When did the Constitution become null and void within school grounds? Schools are slowly taking away children's constitutional rights and the children are too young to realize it. By the time they reach adulthood these kids won't know what freedoms are guaranteed to them and they will unwittingly be vulnerable to a government that will strip them of their rights using the ruse of “keeping them safe”. We are headed down a road where everything they will do as adults will be watched, supervised and censored.
Is this what we want for our children? Are we willing to pass down to our children an America where there are no individual freedoms such as the right to free speech, the right to your own beliefs even if others don't agree, the right to practice and speak of your religious views without fear of retaliation.
Parents we need to wake up and question the activities going on in the schools: censorship, discrimination, loss of freedoms. Under the guise of political correctness we are losing/giving up the very freedoms that our forefathers fought for.
Our country's future depends on our children knowing what the Constitution says; they must know what their freedoms are and the importance of maintaining and defending these freedoms. The public schools have gone too far and must be reeled in and reminded that their jobs are to teach and uphold the U.S. Constitution, not restrict it.
