Below is my column in The Hill on the recent significant victory for free speech out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. It is a story of how this little first-grade girl schooled her principal and a federal judge on the essence of free speech.
Here is the column:
In March 2021, California principal Jesus Becerra was confronted by a clear and present threat to his school.
Standing before him was the culprit — a student apparently so dangerous that Becerra had to act without delay to protect the entire Viejo Elementary School in the Capistrano Unified School District.
The little girl is known only as B.B. in federal filings, but her actions were so heinous that a parent alerted Becerra to take whatever action was necessary.
Beccera showed B.B. the incriminating evidence: a picture of children with the words “any life” written under “Black Lives Matter.”
Confronting the little girl, Becerra allegedly called the paper “racist.” He told her that she would need to apologize for the outrageous statement. (Becerra denies using the word “racist.”). Her family alleges that she was also suspended from recess for two weeks, apparently to consider her failures as a human being.
B.B. had just sat through a book reading about Martin Luther King. It ended with “Black Lives Matter,” an expression that she had never previously heard. She felt bad that black people in the book were shown as being treated differently and unfairly. She decided to draw a picture of her friends holding hands under those words with the addition of “any life.” She gave the picture to one of those friends, a girl known in the litigation as M.C.
Throughout history, friends have given each other such notes and pictures without incident. But in these times, an array of adults felt the need to intervene, to make sure the girls understood that this innocent act was actually a despicable act of latent racism.
When M.C. brought the picture home, her mother was upset. M.C. is the only black student in the class and B.B. is white. She wrote to Becerra to object that “while we can appreciate the sentiment of Black Lives Matter, my husband and I do not trust the place ‘any life’ is coming from.” She did not want this to become a “larger issue” but asked Becerra to take the “actions that need to be taken to address the issue.”
Becerra allegedly demanded that B.B apologize and then suspended her from recess. B.B. did not tell her mother, Chelsea Boyle, about the incident or the alleged punishment for eleven months. But then the family moved to address the matter. They faced an array of administrators and lawyers who fought them at every stage. The school denied that the punishment had even happened, asserting that “the weight of evidence” did not support the claim that the little girl had been punished in any way.
Ultimately, the case made its way before federal District Court Judge David Carter, a Bill Clinton appointee. The school demanded summary judgment. Even though a court at that stage must assume all disputed facts in the most favorable way for the nonmoving party (B.B. in this case), Carter held that she could indeed be punished for writing those two words, “any life.”
Judge Carter declared that B.B.’s drawing was “not protected under the First Amendment” and that teachers like Becerra “are far better equipped than federal courts at identifying when speech crosses the line from harmless banter to impermissible harassment.” Besides, Carter added, “the downsides of regulating speech there is not as significant as it is in high schools, where students are approaching voting age and controversial speech could spark conducive conversation.”
In Judge Carter’s world, there is little danger that elementary students are likely to develop a taste for free speech, let alone contemplate its use. (Judge Carter had shown equally dismissive views of free speech in a controversial ruling related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.)
And so B.B. apparently got what she deserved as a little harasser, roaming the halls of Viejo Elementary School with her hateful box of crayons.
Fortunately, however, with the help of the Pacific Legal Foundation, the parents appealed Judge Carter’s chilling opinion. Last week, they won a major free speech victory before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
In 1969, the Supreme Court famously declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” However, since that iconic case, federal courts have often given short shrift to the free speech rights of students.
Teachers around the country have become notorious as speech commissars who bar expressions deemed divisive or intolerant. That often includes any conservative or religious speech.
An elementary school in Kansas came under fire recently after Arbor Creek Elementary Principal Melissa Snell stopped the wearing of shirts reading “Freedom,” which became popular after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In another case, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Boyko ruled in Ohio that students could be barred from wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” shirts — a coded political expression criticizing the media and former President Joe Biden. Other courts have also upheld such censorship by teachers, who claim that the expression is a substitute for a vulgar expression chanted by crowds (“F— Joe Biden”). But these shirts do not contain vulgarity. Rather, the expression is used as a defiant reference to the media bias that led to the original substitution of the words, allegedly to protect Biden — it is a “Yankee Doodling” of the political and media establishment.
In these cases, judges also wrote opinions upholding the arbitrary censorship of words by school administrators, who often show greater tolerance for progressive political expression.
In this case, however, the Ninth Circuit broke from these ranks in defending this little girl.
The panel (composed of Judges Consuelo Callahan, a George W. Bush appointee, and Roopali Desai and Ana de Alba, Biden appointees) ruled that just being in elementary school does not mean that B.B. has no meaningful free speech rights. A school, they found, “may restrict students’ speech only when the restriction is reasonably necessary to protect the safety and well-being of its students.”
B.B. will now have the opportunity denied by Judge Carter: to prove that giving a friend a picture celebrating all lives is not a threat to “the safety and well-being” of the entire Viejo Elementary School. Ironically, the school has taught its students an invaluable lesson: They have the right to speak and should never allow others to silence them arbitrarily. This first-grader prevailed over administrators, teachers, lawyers, and a federal judge who saw little “downside” in censoring her.
I doubt it is a lesson that will take. Perhaps the girl, by now probably a middle schooler, should draw a picture of Principal Becerra, Judge Carter, and others holding hands with the expression, “We all can speak.”
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
For several decades the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that students (citizens) have a First Amendment right to wear a political or religious tee shirt, jewelry, etc. unless a public school has a uniform policy where everyone wears the same outfits.
A public school teacher, principle or school board member is a government employee. The purpose of the First Amendment is RESTRAIN government authority infringing on the free speech of the citizen (student).
So the First Amendment places few restrictions on the citizens/students but does strongly restrain public school officials from violating those rights.
Sacramento Kings announcer Grant Napier was fired for saying “All lives matter” Napear was fired in 2020 after tweeting “ALL LIVES MATTER…EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!” in response to a question about the Black Lives Matter movement.
–His termination was viewed as a response to the backlash from his tweet during a politically charged time following George Floyd’s death.-
The Democrats Modus Operandi, Punish the offender. I can hear it now: well she’s just a little girl, what’s the worst discipline we can administer, stand in the corner, Nah, let’s have her sit in the classroom while the other children play. Doesn’t that sound persuasive (isolation away from peers), or is it likely picayunish (trivial/petty/vile). Oh so many FOOLs occupy the Lefts Totem Pole that is being charred by the fire of the brimstone, the Sulfuric smell is overwhelming. Censuring children with fervid (burning) emotions.
Oh Grand Ma what big ears you have.
The lesson from Aesop’s ‘The Frog and the Mouse’
“Those who seek to harm others often come to harm themselves through their own deceit”.
(OT — from an ongoing subthread)
The Left is crowing because a Trump administration official resigned over a policy dispute, with the claim that Iran does not pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. (Therefore, allegedly, there is no justification for the war.)
To those who appease evil, “clear” means your country’s name is on a tombstone. And “present” means yesterday.
Some have learned nothing from the sordid history of such appeasements throughout the 20th century.
Sam: Thank you.
May I respectfully add the following to counter the media’s overwhelming headlines enthusiastically reporting his resignation as anti-Trump, rather than considering that it might have anti-war foundation.
https://www.facebook.com/NBCNews/posts/opinion-joe-kent-my-wife-died-fighting-isis-under-president-trumps-orders-how-he/4689150107771649/
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-came-dover-after-my-wife-was-killed-fighting-isis-ncna1239425
Sam, If the ‘sordid history of the 20th century’ taught you that the best way to avoid a tombstone is to start a war your own Counterterrorism Chief says is unjustified, you might want to ask for a refund on those history books.
Trump is currently begging NATO to help him out with the strait of Hormuz problem. They are rightfully giving him the middle finger. He spent all of last year saying how NATO is not needed and how useless it is. The moron is now throwing a fit over the fact nobody is answering his calls for help.
Sam – no less than Al Jazeera is pointing out the problems with the dominant media narrative on this war: they are only looking at the immediate costs, without considering the strategic implications of destroying Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/16/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why
Don’t you think it’s only buying time, omfk? Isn’t the entire middle east totalitarian? Contrast with free will and reason? Why do they migrate here? For the economics?
Immigrants from totalitarian nations seeking asylum would throw off what they’ve left? We aren’t seeing that are we?
Soon, a Muslim will be elected president. Of course that’ll be the 2nd after Obama. All support of Israel will stop. That’ll be that? The failure was in designating Islam as a religion and not as a totalitarian political system adverse to freedom, free will and reason.
Carpe diem
The famous quote:
“The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind and still retain the ability to function”
The student was correct, the teacher was wrong, the district judge was wrong on the First Amendment. But the “Black Lives Matter” issue was also valid about unequal treatment by police (ie: driving-while-black, walking-while-black, shopping-while-black, etc.
The intention behind BLM was very noble about many times fatal police encounters based purely on appearance, but maybe it could have been named better.
BLM movement was never intended to disrespect police or anyone else. It supported constitutional policing, which every police officer in America swears an oath of office to NOT violate constitutional rights. BLM was never intended to defund “constitutional” police practices, only defund “unconstitutional” police practices. Some BLM supporters forgot to include “unconstitutional” police practices and wrongly said defund all police which helped Democrats lose elections.
In 2014 the U.S. Department of Justice published the “Ferguson Report” about unconstitutional practices by police and city officials in Ferguson, Missouri (available free online on DOJ’s website).
Even today, the vast majority of police chiefs refuse to publicly document “constitutional” searches (with judicial-warrants) versus “unconstitutional” searches (without judicial-warrants) then document the number of convictions for each type of search. This documentation would focus most police police resources on cases with probable cause evidence (approved by judges) and reduce the crime rate – since most resources were directed towards evidence based suspects. But in 2026, almost no police departments do this and allow voters to see the results.
. . . the expression [Let’s Go Brandon] is used as a defiant reference to the media bias that led to the original substitution of the words.
Sometimes life accidentally dishes up a deliciously ironic plate of words that fit perfectly. Another example is the fraudulent Somali daycare in Minneapolis that misspelled “learning” and put up a sign saying Quality Learing Center.
I wonder whether perhaps an empty, fraudulent dacare with no kids is better than one where kids are leered at by creepy adults?
“She did not want this to become a “larger issue” but asked Becerra to take the “actions that need to be taken to address the issue.”
Yes she did want it to be a larger issue.
It’s time to stop pandering and bowing to the exquisitely heightened sensibilities of various ethnic groups. Grow up.
On another note, Turley : “In 1969, the Supreme Court famously declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
That is the Tinker case and it sets a clear standard protecting free speech by the highest court.
Yet, as in this appalling case, district courts almost regularly now spit in the face of the supreme legal authority in the land. This is not even an instance of fine legal analysis coming to a different conclusion; it is open and blatant defiance by an inferior court that is incapable of embarrassment or shame, the only restraints likely to be imposed.
Roberts has much to answer for in the open rebellion of the lower courts. He wanted to protect the reputation of the judiciary but he has allowed it to be politicised and sullied.
I believe, with Professor Shapiro, that the law schools, imbued with critical legal theory, are also at fault for grinding out inferior products who become judges. I sometimes wonder if just reading Blackstone and working with experienced lawyers didn’t produce better lawyers.
More chum for the MAGA crowd–trying to make a big deal about a tempest in a teapot, and stirring up racist hatred over a mishandled matter. Meanwhile in news that is really important, Trump’s counterterrorism head, Joe Kent, resigned because he cannot support the Trump war vs. Iran, saying:
“Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactics the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost the nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.”
Kent also said: “Kent has said that Iran posed no imminent threat to “our nation”, and it was clear that the United States started this war due to “pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Pressure, no doubt, driven by campaign contributions.
Of course, Speaker Johnson denied these facts, even though members of Congress who have been briefed on the matter have all said no evidence of any clear threat to the US was shown. Last June, Trump said that he “totally and completely obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, but now, suddenly, they were on the verge of nuking us. In other Trump lie news: he claimed that he spoke with a “former President”, who allegedly complimented him on starting a war with Iran and that he wished he had done so. Media outlets contacted the spokespersons for all living former Presidents, each of whom denied that such a conversation took place.
Cuba is experiencing a total failure of their power grid. Trump made the amazing statement that he could simply invade Cuba and take it over–saying “I can do whatever I want.”
Gee, Turley, what would Jemmy say about all of this?
Cry harder Gigi, we can’t hear you.
Gigi shows up every day with her 10,000-word diatribes that nobody reads. Every single one starts with “More MAGA chum by Professor Turley” and every other word is MAGA. MAGA MAGA MAGA blah blah blah. Gigi is sick in the head.
And gigi has relevant p[inions. You, just whining like a child.
LOL. All of Natacha’s screeds are pure whine. 100%. Not an exception to be found.
no, no,no.
gigi has relevant MINIONs, apparently even you, and any one else who supports her garbage hatred. Actually, I don;t see any minions who think gigi has a brain and follow her.
It seems likely B.B. will vote Republican when she grows up. Possibly even be a conservative activist. And that’s a shame, not because I have any objection to Republican voters or conservative activists, but because of how they damaged B.B.’s childhood. These demented public school employees corrupt little children’s souls by making everything political. At that young age, children should just be able to enjoy the beauty of life, friendship, music, art, and literature, withoug deranged left-wing adults turning them into policial pawns. This is just sickening.
And no, B.B.’s parents are not at fault in this. They stood up for B.B.’s rights, which were severely violated by others on some stupid imagined political basis. They did the right thing.
HOW is this not child abuse?
The Left ruins everything it touches. Leftist ideology is a clear and present danger to childhood. Not only with incidents like this, but with child sexual mutilation, and putting boys in middle- and high-school girls’ locker rooms.
You sound like you’re one sentence away from warning me about the ‘war on Christmas.
Arguments based on “you’re one sentence away” or “next you’ll be saying X” are rarely convincing. Try dealing with what I actually said. Or is that too difficult for you?
The fact is old man you have a pathological hate for anyone who dares criticize your bizarre analysis of events. And not worth exchanging opinions with.
You have no answer, so you fall back on “you’re not worth exchanging opinions with.” Lame. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Old man wins again.
Against anonimi Oldman never loses. Anonimi are like Jellyfish; no backbone and almost no substance.
Thanks Meyer. The difference between anonimi and jellyfish is that jellyfish actually sting, whereas anonimi only think they do.
Meyer
As I have previously noted and documented, you display an extraordinarily tenuous grasp of the English language.
This time I note your attempted use of the word “anonimi”, which does not actually exist.
“Anonymous” is not a noun. It is an adjective. It cannot be pluralized. In the context of this blog, the word “Anonymous” is used as an adjective to describe the nature of the COMMENT. The term simply DESCRIBES the nature of the comment as being anonymous, in the correct grammatical use of adjectives as descriptive words. It does not affix the term “Anonymous” as a pseudonymous name for the author.
Even if “anonymous” was a noun that could be pluralized, the supposed plural form you attempted to create might possibly be “anonimi”, but that would be a misspelling. Where is the “y”? If “anonymous” could be pluralized in the false way you suggest, then it would be “anonymi” not “anonimi”.
So not only did you use faulty grammar to create a word that doesn’t actually exist, you can’t even spell it correctly. You actually manage to misspell words that don’t even exist. That is breathtaking incompetence and simply demonstrates your exceedingly poor language skills. Every time you post a comment it becomes more and more obvious that English is your second or even third language. Of course, the mindless nature of your comments, in addition to the gross grammatical errors lends further evidence to my hypothesis that you are in reality an extremely poorly trained bot from some Eastern European country.
For the record, the correct term for one who can be described as being anonymous is the noun “anonym”, and therefore the plural form of “anonym” is “anonyms”.
I also note your use of the insult “jellyfish”.
At least this is a new insult, other than the alcoholism insult that you have beaten to death over the years of your stupid comments here.
To extend your use of the “jellyfish” insult, I hope you do not find my remarks to be too “stinging”.
‘Use of the word “anonimi”, which does not actually exist.’
But, Sigmund the Fraud, you got the meaning, which is what communication is all about. While anonymi is not in your dictionary, it is a common enough usage that even your mind understood it. There is a common understanding that the veracity of a statement should never be undermined by the mechanics of the delivery.
Your reliance on grandiloquence, bombast, and pomposity is a throw-away, especially since you rely so steadily on your foremost form of conversation: self- admitted, bombastic mendacity.
Public schools, and the Marxist teachers’ unions that they enable, have been the most heinous ongoing threat to the Republic for most of its history. For at least the past 100 years, they have been little more than public indoctrination academies.
As Lin aptly points out, this whole thing could of, and likely should of, been handled better.
Rather than apply a degree of common sense, logic and reason, sitting down with the parents, perhaps the children, the principal went to the virtue signaling and applied the punishment to B.B. Does she even understand what she supposedly did wrong?
Or is this another example of leftist dogma that a six year old knows and understands what even BLM, the civil rights era, whom Dr. MLK was and the significance of his “I have a dream,” speech and more importantly the key line in his speech, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” just like a six year old knows and understands what biological sex is and gender?
The fact that one set of parents were kept in the dark on the matter, the fact their child was punished is appalling. Seems public schools are no longer as transparent as they once used to be.
I wonder why that is?
Handled better? I venture to say, lin or you have ever been employed in education. At best, you both squeaked thru grade school – it shows in your comment.
And just because you were notoriously stupid at 6, does not mean today’s are dumber than you at 74.
Lastly, no where does Turley state her parents were kept in the dark. Have someone with a grade school education read the article to you again.
Lastly, no where does Turley state her parents were kept in the dark. Have someone with a grade school education read the article to you again.
Professor Turley says:
Becerra allegedly demanded that B.B apologize and then suspended her from recess. B.B. did not tell her mother, Chelsea Boyle, about the incident or the alleged punishment for eleven months.
Doesn’t that mean the parents were kept in the dark. If they already knew, then there would be nothing for B.B. to tell eleven months later.
So semantics you want eh? So the girl did not tell her mother, and so what? You are 100% convinced based on your quoted text that “did not tell her .. unequivocally means “KEPT in the dark” implies” that the 6 y/o girl had the presence of mind to willingly or not, maybe or not, under some form of threat or intimidation from the teacher to decide not say anything about the 1st A non-event? Sorry ole timer, semantics is not your game, go back to solitaire.
^^^ you’re attacking a commenter and the attack is nonsense. If you’re into hatred today please express the reason. Hate senior people or men perhaps? Hatred for white people or white children?
So if I understand you correctly, you’re conceding that the school did not tell a first-grader’s parents about the punishment they meted out against that first-grader, and your sole contention is that that does not amount to “keeping the parents in the dark.” Is that right?
Another reply from a jellyfish; no backbone, no substance.
I love headlines…
“Trump Finds Out That After Insulting Allies Forever, They Don’t Feel Like Helping Him”
stay on topic or start your own blog, El Cheapo.
Well this is California after all, the melting pot of the most ignorant among us cast as competent supermen. They are phoning it in because they are indoctrinators, not educators. I laugh at the teachers strike in California: They don’t get that:
A: we are #47 in educational outcomes, and they are demanding raises.
B: the money has been stolen.
California will not be happy until they are in last place!
It seems irrefutable that B.B. and M.C. were friends.
How unfortunate that this budding friendship will likely be tainted heretofore.
It is the resentment, hatred, and bitterness of the parents (begotten of THEIR parents) that they imbue in our younger generations.
It would have been nice for Becerra to invite both sets of parents in, with or without the two friends, to discuss together how to build lasting friendships and mutual understanding. It could have ended right there.
^ (lin)
(part of the “in” crowd by accident.)
Lin,
What you are describing is common sense, logic, reason.
It appears the principal lacked those traits and went straight to the emotions based “racists!” place. And then denied his form of punishment.
Common sense is the new racism!
Only to the left
/\ in The problem is that M.C.’s parents interpreted two innocent words by an even more innocent child as a racist comment. They should have been happy to have someone share that thought with their child as it shows a non racist mind. Now the little girl will have this hanging over her head that she has to be careful or she will be branded a racist. It also presents to the innocent M.C. that she needs to be suspicious of other people and their comments.
It is also strange to me that in today’s mixed ethnic families this kind of action is even thought of much less the penalizing and innocent child.
Any consequences to the principle?
No, absolutely none at all even though the district’s investigation had evidence of him (in writing) saying it never happened.
Joe Kent, who was appointed by Trump as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned on Tuesday out of protest over the U.S. war against Iran, marking the president’s first major rebuke on the conflict from a member of his administration.
“After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today,” Kent wrote Tuesday in a statement shared on social media.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
The Director of the National Counterterrorism Center is in the perfect position to know what is actually going on with this war, and why it was started.
And he admits what everybody else with at least 2 brain cells to rub together already knew.
Israel and Netanyahu bamboozled the demented Trump into starting an unnecessary war.
Let’s see. Iran very close to an atomic bomb with international ballistic missile capability is not a threat to both its neighbors and America. Iran time and time again has attacked both American and their neighboring Arab states. Is this guy so naive as to think that Iran would not use a nuclear bomb if they had its possession when 99 virgins are waiting in heaven.
American intelligence knew that Hitler was close to a nuclear bomb because they figured out the German codes when they learned how the Enigma machine worked. This guy knows the extent of American intelligence today that is capable of code breaking. The only explanation is that somebody somewhere has some dirt on this guy.
Earth to Tit, earth to Tit, come in …
Your belief in something does not make it true.
Last June trump “Obliterated” Irans nuclear program. His words, Obliterated.
So now 9 months later they are back at work? Get a life.
Do you think killing over 100 school girls with a missile, then blaming them for the killing might just piss off about the whole country and want to take revenge on those that did killing?
IMHO, History will treat this fiasco very badly, trump will go down as the most incompetent president in our history and the Republican Senators and Congressman who supported this idiot will also be forever tainted with their subservience to a mad man. Time will tell.
The Republican Party is dead Good luck winning future national elections.
Did you for get. Iran said the had more nuke material. Plus the new areas they had built.
Kent is an Army veteran.
from “Wiki”
“In January 2019, Kent’s wife Shannon [also serving in the military] was killed in a suicide bombing in Manbij, Syria. He became involved in political advocacy after Shannon’s death.”
I suspect his resignation may be related to this.
Why do you constantly post off-topic comments intending to discredit Trump?
Using WIKI.
It’s a open website.
We get it. No facts will ever dissuade your psychotic hatred of Trump, or your mindless anti-Semitism, or your equally-psychotic hatred of Netanyahu.
You can easily be refuted on every piece of excrement you post.
Trump had been consistent for over 40 years in his opinions about the threats Iran posed to Americans.
You really should learn to just STFU and stop humiliating yourself like this, since none of your uneducated bubble even reads Professor Turley’s columns and books, and nobody with a brain will ever believe anything you say. 🙂
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-kharg-island-iran-hormuz-strait-11678474
You forgot Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has a microvagina that is only 3 inches long:
“I wholeheartedly support Megyn Kelly telling the world that Mark Levin has a micropenis. It’s the most deserved insult, and I don’t care if it’s vulgar.”
“And Trump’s gigantic defense of Levin only enraged the base more. People are DONE. MAGA destroyed by micropenis Mark Levin.”
– Marjorie Taylor Greene, The Hill
Professor… today’s report is ripe with sarcasm. Question: What took so long?! Keep up with this effort, please. It’s a pleasure to read. -JAFO
In the paragraph about the Let’s Go Brandon t-shirt, Prof. Turley temporarily dropped the sarcasm and gave a cogent and concise explanation of Yankee Doodling. However in that case, the judge upheld the censorship and no amount of sarcasm will aid in reversing that injustice.
You can rest assured that if a Palestinian first grader said that Jewish lives matter the punishment would be severe. The attempted indoctrination of children in California schools is no different. Knowing how important recess is to a first grader they found the one thing that would make her very sad so that she would quickly step back into line.
Knowing the long lasting trauma that this child would suffer they didn’t care. Just to message their physiological need to appear compassionate about race they were willing to inflict damage on a first grade child that she will live with for the rest of her life. Hearts of stone. You can vote to stop it.
Not only did the punishment not fit the crime (loss of recess for two weeks? yikes!), it seems the principal may have further threatend the six year old with even more punishment if she told her parents. 11-months before anyone found out she couldn’t play? That’s just cruel. Beccera needs a federal time-out.
JAFO,
“Beccera needs a federal time-out.”
Awesome!
Not telling parents if you get punished is normal child behavior. (I don’t mean universal, just within the spectrum.)
The Becerras who gave him the name Jesus should’ve sent him to Sunday school to learn the song: “Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.”
Creekan,
“Not telling parents if you get punished is normal child behavior.”
But at that level, the principal/school should of made that set of parents aware of the situation. They did not. They kept it from the parents.
Actually, threatening to tell my parents if I didn’t cut it out would’ve probably been more effective than all the detentions and 100x handwriting assignments I remember. But to notify parents of every “infraction” might be unnecessarily time-consuming so I don’t agree that should be the standard. Two weeks of detention from recess for a single instance seems about 10x too much, though.
Bring back segregation.
BB is a minority white in the school? Obviously she’s hated for being a white child. They found a reason to harm her.
What was the objective of the lesson? What a lousy school. 😏 Obviously BB didn’t know the objective and was given an F with punishment. BB only knew the solution. Just like a smart aleck white supremacists? Love those fists on the posters. BLM, you get them!
Segregation is the answer BB.