"Five teachers met with Assistant Principal Marc Minsker, who oversees the English department, to discuss the delay of reading 'Night and Maus.' Minsker said that teachers were struggling with how to teach 'because [the conflict is] a sensitive topic right now.' The department decided to postpone reading the books until tensions decreased." Wow. I thought people were exaggerating. |
That's what the ACLU was years ago. It has abandoned its strong defense of free speech and now advocates for speech it likes and policing speech it does not like. About 20 years ago key leaders split off from the ACLU to create the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) which is an awesome organization akin to what the ACLU once was. https://www.thefire.org |
Bad (and costly) look for JR. |
To the PP-FIRE are right-wing nuts. |
yeah. that’s why their sudden advocacy of 1A to show an anti-israel movie (while Maus is apparently still banned) is highly suspect. |
Both were taught last month. My kid read Night. |
Maus was never banned. Students read it last month. |
Oh good, thanks for the update. Thats a relief. |
Would ACLU sue if the school banned Gone with the Wind? Why or why not? |
Or just express the correct genocidal views and you'll be embraced by the right and conservative democrats |
Jeff’s deleting my posts. |
Yes, if you are going to call high school kids "terrorists" and refer to them with profane terms, your post is going to be deleted. That should not be a surprise. |
ACLU weirdly became a catch-all progressive activist group at some point in the last 10 years, rather than sticking to their best lane. Some of the lawsuits within the group are downright comical, even by lefty in-fighting standards. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/aclu-employee-fired-race-bias.html
So I am not sure what to make of the JR suit. |
And since they famously run all of the elite colleges and staff HR at the institutions you might want to work after graduating, that's totally just as helpful! |
I'm guessing the suit will go nowhere. Students' freedom of speech on school grounds is not absolute; the student group in question did not follow the process laid out for all student groups and the film they wanted to show likely met the threshold where the school had a legitimate reason for concern that it could cause "substantial and material disruption" to the learning process.
https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/student-speech-expression-rights-factsheet.pdf |