Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum - Safe Schools, Safe Students
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.”

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.
How can ‘public education’ that takes place in a publicly owned government building, not in fact be, a 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...



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