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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Just Say No — And Don’t Talk About It, Either
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices has ruled against an Alaska student who was punished five years ago for displaying a poster near campus that read: BONG HiTS 4 JESUS.
Although the nation’s highest court has limited students’ free speech rights in the past, critics said the decision broke new ground in extending prohibitions on student expression to anything deemed as promoting illicit drug use.
For good or ill, teenagers will test teachers and principals to see how far they can go in challenging authority and asserting themselves. But will telling students they can’t talk about drugs keep them from doing them or just keep adults from learning about it?
