The United States is currently in the grip of election fever. It’s practically all that’s reported in the news, and most everyone has discussed it at some point (and probably at length) with friends, family, and coworkers.
But New York Federal District Judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered that election fever be kept out of the classroom – at least in part – by prohibiting teachers from wearing campaign buttons in view of students, though they are permitted to place campaign material in teacher mailboxes and on billboards maintained by their union. The teachers’ union supports Obama.
Interestingly, the seminal U.S. Supreme Court dealing with student free speech, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), permitted public school students to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War.
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