Brickbat: Sign of the Times

A federal judge has granted Tyler Maxwell, 18, a restraining order allowing him to keep parking his truck at Florida's Spruce Creek High School. The principal rescinded Maxwell's parking pass after he refused to remove a pro-Trump display, including a large elephant statue, from the truck. "The school board has obligation to provide politically neutral campuses," Volusia County Public Schools said in a statement. "We allow political expression by students in the form of a T-shirt or a bumper sticker. But large signage is a different situation. A passerby could interpret a large sign in a school parking lot to be an endorsement by the school district." Maxwell's attorney says the school's actions violate his client's free speech rights. The judge's decision allows Maxwell to park with the display until the case is resolved.
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A passerby could interpret a large sign in a school parking lot to be an endorsement by the school district.
Mythical passerby somehow both a product of public schooling and not a product of public schooling.
They could also interpret the presence of his truck to be an endorsement for Ford.
Whoa, now you're cooking with gas! How about the presence of bricks, glass, etc., building materials that the school facility is made of? Endorsements of brick and glass companies? This has to be STOPPED before it goes any further!
Worse yet, I bet that pickup is powered by fossil fuel, a walking talking, well, driving growling, advertisement against climate change.
What's the school building made of? brick and mortar?
Couldn't that be interpreted as being anti-Internet?
We need a section 230, the 1A of the internet, for school parking lots so that untold masses of passing by trolls don't sue school districts into ruin for hosting speech that wasn't their own.
So they have an "obligation to provide politically neutral campuses", but "allow political expression by students in the form of a T-shirt or a bumper sticker". So, in short, they're just pulling things out of their ass and hoping it stands up.
What a crock.
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"The school board has obligation to provide politically neutral campuses," Volusia County Public Schools said in a statement. "We allow political expression by students in the form of a T-shirt or a bumper sticker.
Or a walkout to ban firearms, or a student strike for climate change, or a protest for #MeToo... you know, a quiet, non-political campus without administrative endorsement.
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