Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Never Reverse?

re: Wilfred McClay, "...Well, the decision was certainly correct, but count me completely uninspired by such reasoning. Suppose that the student had raised a banner using rank four-letter obscenities to argue against drug abuse. Would that have been OK? Would the principal have been any less right in demanding that they take it down? Would the Court then have to deliberate on the subject, and produce yet another narrowly tailored opinion justifying the obvious? /In short, it's a rather disappointing decision, which dutifully respects wrongheaded or mushily stated precedents (notably the 1969 Tinker decision), while failing to recognize that the real issue at stake here is whether public schools can possibly do their job when those tasked with running them have been divested of all vestiges of institutional, legal, and moral authority. "School principals," the opinion rightly concludes, "have a difficult job." You can say that again. And the courts have done a great deal to make it more so...."...