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Originally posted by off2cjb:
Wrong, you don't have freedom of speech in public schools. Just refer to any instance involving prayer during school hours. We were never allowed to wear any shirts containing weed, booze, naked people, or anything else like that. The kid should not be allowed to wear tbat shirt to school.

If I was one of those kids at that school, I would have a shirt made saying something like "I want to rape and kill the principal." Get a nice photo of him on the shirt....I wonder how that would be received.
Actually, you DO have freedom of speech in schools - it was decided long ago. You can wear a shirt with bible quotes on it. You can pray all you want in school. You can hang a cross on your locker.

What you CANNOT do, however is disrupt classwork. Also, something that may be considered "inappropriate" or "harmful." The bush shirt hardly falls under those two criteria. Just like a t-shirt having some biblical quote doesn't.

A gathering of students for bible study sanctioned by the school is NOT the same thing. (edit to add: if it's after school hours, and not precluding school activities, I have no issue with a prayer group using a room)

Here's a link for you about the cases deciding this:

Freedom of Speech in schools
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