Parents across the nation are sick of Liberal teachers imposing their political beliefs on kids. Parents are sending their kids to school to learn the basics, not to become liberals. But Libs don’t care what parents want, they are teaching their kids CRT despite protest and have even told parents they don’t have the freedom of speech during school board meetings. So four Pennsylvanian taxpayers came together to fight to get the freedom of speech back.
“Four taxpayers in Pennsylvania have decided enough is enough after footing the bill for a school board attorney who told them that the school system could limit their First Amendment rights.
The taxpayers filed a free-speech lawsuit in federal court that could set a precedent for invalidating policies that shield both school administrators and elected officials from public criticism.
“Our lawsuit seeks case precedent to establish that citizens cannot be censored or intimidated by government officials for exercising their First Amendment rights at a school board meeting,” Simon Campbell, a former member of the Pennsbury School Board, explained.
In their suit, Campbell and three other taxpayers whose children are or were enrolled in Bucks County’s Pennsbury School District ask the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to strike down school board policies used to “censor” citizens who dissent.
The Institute for Free Speech, a Washington-based nonprofit law firm, represents the four plaintiffs. Their suit names Pennsbury School Board officers and other members as well as the board’s lawyers and current and former district officials.
Michael Clarke, an attorney for the Pennsbury School District who is among the defendants, is on record informing parents and other residents that they “don’t have First Amendment rights” during the “public comment” section of a school board meeting, according to the suit filed Oct. 1.
The lawsuit quotes Clarke at some length arguing that the First Amendment does not protect speech that violates what he describes as “reasonable guidelines.”
These guidelines could be extended to include comments that label government officials as “criminal” or “incompetent,” Clarke said during a Dec. 17 board meeting, one of several over the past year that figure in the litigation.”
It is insane that somehow Americans lose their freedom of speech once they enter a school board meeting. Americans should be able to freely speak their minds, especially when it comes to the welfare of their children. Teachers clearly have too much power here if they can strip rights away from parents just because it’s on school grounds.
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