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An essay on free-speech rights in high schools from a First Amendment scholar:
After 12 years of censorship and regimentation, many high school students will graduate this spring with little or no idea about what it means to be a free, active and engaged citizen in a democracy. When they march across the stage to get their diploma, let’s hope someone slips them a copy of the First Amendment – with instructions on how to use it.
Far too many public school officials are afraid of freedom and avoid anything that looks like democracy. Under the heading of “safety and discipline,” administrators censor student religious and political speech, shut down student newspapers and limit student government to discussions about decorations at the prom.
Fortunately, a growing number of brave students defy the odds and take seriously what they hear about free speech in civics class…
The student government of York University in Toronto has voted to deny recognition to pro-life clubs and organizations.
According to an article in the National Post, at least four other colleges — Capilano College, the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Lakehead University, and Carleton University — have taken similar action in recent months.
The Post also reports that the Canadian Federation of Students has passed a statement resolving that “member locals that refuse to allow anti-choice organizations access to their resources and space be supported.”
Announcing himself as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States just now, Barack Obama declared that “the chance to get a college education should not be a privilege for the wealthy few, but the birthright of every American.”
A new analysis of Barack Obama and John McCain’s campaign stops shows that Obama has made more than two dozen campaign stops in college towns since the beginning of February. John McCain? Just one.
The report tracked the candidates’ visits to eleven different kinds of communities, but did not measure campus visits specifically. It did not analyze Hillary Clinton’s campaign schedule.
WireTap magazine has a fascinating interview up on youth electoral organizing. The interviewee is blogger Michael Connery, whose new book Youth to Power: How Today’s Young Voters are Building Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority is at the top of our reading list.
We’ve added Connery’s blog, Future Majority, to our blogroll.
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