By Emily Baugh
Announcements Editor
“Obama is a Terrorist’s Best Friend” was the slogan written across Daxx Dalton’s homemade t-shirt when he walked into his fifth grade class at Aurora Frontier K-8 School in Aurora, Colorado. Needless to say, something went down at the school; Dalton was suspended.
Dalton says he was suspended for wearing the shirt and is now promptly crying out that his First Amendment rights were violated. But should he really be yelling foul? So many people in today’s society say, do or wear something controversial and as soon as they get in trouble they say their First Amendment rights were violated.
The First Amendment shouldn’t be a way to get out of trouble or to do something that they want to do just because they know they won’t get in trouble, just like Dalton. Dalton is now pressing charges against the school.
In reality, Dalton was suspended because he was causing a disturbance. The school administrators thought that the shirt was inappropriate and gave the boy three options: change into something else, turn the shirt inside out, or be suspended. Dalton chose to be suspended. The administrators say that the boy was suspended because he was causing a disturbance and was being willfully disobedient and defiant. So really, who is in the right here, the school that was trying to do its job, or a kid who is screaming that his First Amendment rights were violated?
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