8 thoughts on “Bong Hits 4 11D”

  1. But, I don’t get it. Why is it funny? 🙂
    I haven’t gotten the details in the reporting on this case — I mean I think the student wasn’t on school property when he held up the sign. Is the school arguing that everything a student says, in any forum, is subject to their control?
    bj

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  2. I think he was across the street, and that yes, the school is arguing for total control. Or, as Ken Starr said, fighting drug use necessitates such control.

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  3. Fighting drug use, and in fact simply maintaining a reasonable school environment, does indeed require control of kids in the environs of the school.
    It also requires having the good sense not to give a hard time to someone who is trying to provoke a legal case….

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  4. Yeah. These kids weren’t actually doing drugs. They weren’t even really advocating drug use. They were just carrying a silly sign, in order to get some attention on TV. And, as any normal person knows, bong is a funny word.
    In the 1969 case referred to in the Times, someone said that students shouldn’t have to check their first amendment rights at the school house gate. Really liked that line.

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  5. But we do draw the line somewhere, don’t we? If a high school student repeatedly used a racial slur to describe a teacher or a classmate while on school campus or turned in a piece of creative writing approvingly describing a Columbine-style massacre of thinly fictionalized teachers and classmates, I think he would find his speech curtailed. Like it or not, free speech rights do end at the school house door. The question is how fair the rules and enforcement are.

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  6. Next thing ‘flinging the wet’ will have chargeable penalties. If a school is not responsible for a student’s behaviour because of time or location ( or other factors ), I fail to see why they should have any say in what they are doing : it is inconsistent and oppressive. The only exception should be for damages : self righteous presumptions of “damage to dignity” don’t count.

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