Getting what you pay for....

Maybe we should just stop calling them schools and start calling them Citizen Indoctrination Centers.

"...we hold that schools may take steps to safeguard those entrusted to their care from speech that can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use. We conclude that the school officials in this case did not violate the First Amendment by confiscating the pro-drug banner and suspending the student responsible for it.

• 06-278 MORSE ET AL. v. FREDERICK

Frederick's claim that the school's "authoritaaah" didn't apply at the event was rejected offhand, so it boiled down to what students may or may not say or write.

I wonder how long it will be before a school administrator determines that a kid with a myspace or facebook account, whose electronic "friends" attend the same school, is in a position of presenting material to a school body, and therefore subject to limitations on expression or discipline.

You have to dig deep into the decision before you find a Justice that actually attempted to differentiate between a "pro-drug" statement and an "anti-drug-war" statement. I doubt that many school censors will read that far.

In 1969 the court ruled to allow students to wear armbands in protest of the Vietnam war. I don't think this court would uphold that decision today.