“deference to schoolteachers is especially appropriate today, where, increasingly, what is harmful or innocent speech is in the eye of the beholder.”
So given our need for deference to teachers, I'm wondering what happens if one teacher feels something is harmful and another feels it is innocent. The idea of no objective standard dictates that this can only be considered a farce.
Here's an objective standard: Let the kids draw whatever they like, up to and including soldiers shooting guns and missiles into flaming buildings, little girls getting married to enormous yellow cat-men, forests of trees with cookies for leaves, and boatloads of pirates, some of whom have TWO peg legs.
“deference to schoolteachers is especially appropriate today, where, increasingly, what is harmful or innocent speech is in the eye of the beholder.”
So given our need for deference to teachers, I'm wondering what happens if one teacher feels something is harmful and another feels it is innocent. The idea of no objective standard dictates that this can only be considered a farce.
What would the objective standard be for first grade crayon art?
Here's an objective standard: Let the kids draw whatever they like, up to and including soldiers shooting guns and missiles into flaming buildings, little girls getting married to enormous yellow cat-men, forests of trees with cookies for leaves, and boatloads of pirates, some of whom have TWO peg legs.