Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Not So Public, "Public Education"
According to the Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education, public education is not so public after all.
This is a direct quote from the Board of Education's memo to the U.S. District Court:
The Board of Education is not required, as a matter of constitutional law, to include in its curriculum viewpoints or materials suggested by Plaintiffs in order to provide an “opposing view.”How can ‘public education’ that takes place in a publicly owned government building, not in fact be, a public forum?
It is beyond dispute that delivery of curriculum by a teacher in a classroom is government speech that takes place in a non-public forum.
What they are really saying is that, they will choose which opposing views will get said. The implications of this are staggering for a free society...