Month: May 2010

  • Follow-Up: The First Amendment at Live Oak High School

    Yesterday, I posted a lesson on the First Amendment.  It seems that the Mexican American students and their supporters took the advice of adding speech on top of more speech to heart.  On Thursday, 200 students walked out of the classrooms of Live Oak High School and marched to the school district headquarters. All I…

  • Companion Lesson: Religion & the First Amendment

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof[.]” It’s First Amendment Day. Not only because of the fall-out from the Live Oak Five, but because today is the “National Day of Prayer”.   All we need now is government censoring of the press … The National Day of…

  • Lesson: The First Amendment

    On May 5, 2010, five students were asked to either change their attire or go home.  These students had the audacity to wear the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing…