Dear Public Schools, If you're going to allow students to wear LGBT gear, you going to have to allow wearing LGB gear.
You're not allowed to have viewpoint discrimination on political speech, as the Tri County Area School Board is about to find out.
The Detroit Free Press: Students sue Michigan school district for banning 'Let's Go Brandon' sweatshirts
After all, if the Supreme Court has acknowledged you have the right to wear "F the draft" on your shirt in a courthouse, and armbands protesting national government public policy can be worn schools, Let's Go Brandon fits the protest of public figures and policy speech in schools rather nicely.
Since Let's Go Brandon is not profanity, indeed it is rather trite political commentary not just about Biden, but the media at large, and there's been no showing of any actual disturbance the school's argument to keep it out should not work.
To top it off, the school, while claiming they do not allow clothing with political speech, does apparently allow kids to wear clothing with their favored political speech:
On May 26, 2022, the assistant principal had X.A. summoned to his office, where he ordered him to remove the sweatshirt, allegedly telling him "the school does not allow students to wear clothing with political speech."
X.A. complied, but the brothers' lawyers are now crying foul, alleging the school district in fact allows political speech by letting students wear gay pride and LGBTQ T-shirts to school.
Yep, assuming the allegation is true, that viewpoint discrimination is should sink the school's case right there.
After all, you can't have LGBTQ without LGB. Indeed, what happens when a student wears an LGBTQ shirt with a rainbow that then reads below it "Let's Get Brandon To Quit"?
2 comments:
Unintended consequences anyone??? LOL
I read about this, but didn't know it was TriCounty schools. I am thinking that it might be the same TriCounty schools that I played sports against in high school. I made a lot of friends there during my 4 years of high school. That was one thing that playing against the same schools every year did, was let us make friends of those we competed against. In football, we would meet at the start of the game for the coin toss, and tell them how we all were sick and ask them not to hurt us,etc. Then we would go out and stomp them into the ground. We were pretty good, when my grade was playing.
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