A fifth grade student from Colorado has been suspended from school after refusing to remove an anti-Obama t-shirt. Fox News looks at the school’s violation of the First Amendment right to free speech on a day dedicated to patriotic display.
Fox News reports on the Colarado school’s restriction on Daxx Dalton’s political expression:
“An 11-year-old boy in Colorado was suspended from school after he refused to take off a shirt that read, “Obama is a terrorist’s best friend.” His father says that the school is violating his son’s First Amendment rights.”
Read the full story here.
What a dopey controversy. Any school worth its salt (ie not cowed by bullying parents) would have got the student to remove this offensive, and consequently disruptive, statement just as you would expect them to remove a claim that McCain is a pervert’s best friend.