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GregariousGroundhog

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9. I tend to agree
Mon Mar 4, 2024, 01:48 PM
Mar 2024

Teachers and faculty do not have an absolute first amendment right while on the job, but any restrictions on them need to be narrowly tailored to advance a legitimate government interest.

This would prevent many kinds of activities during the Olympics and during foreign language studies that teachers have been assigning for decades. It would also prevent schools from flying flags of their mascot. Is that collateral damage worth a legitimate government interest? I suspect Tennessee will strugle to articulate a state interest and that this is narrowly tailored.

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