Faculty Lounge

Border Of Free Speech In High School

Border Of Free Speech In High School

Share this article

It’s more rigidly enforced than either of our physical land borders are. “Addison Barnes almost made it through his senior year at Liberty High School without triggering a First Amendment battle—but not quite,” Elizabeth Nolan Brown writes on the Reason magazine blog. “According to a new federal lawsuit filed on Barnes’ behalf, administrators at the Oregon school banned the student from wearing a tee-shirt in support of Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.”

Related Topics

Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.

Sign up for Updates & Newsletters.

Recent articles in Faculty Lounge