Judge Gujarati told my censor — Chancellor David Banks — that “securing First Amendment rights is in the public interest.”
A federal judge ruled that New York City parent activist Maud Maron should be reinstated on her school board after finding that Schools Chancellor David Banks violated her free speech rights by ousting her from the position.Russian entrepreneur behind Telegram is threatened with prison
because my words, about an anonymous author’s antisemitism in a student newspaper at my daughter’s school, offended the leader of New York City’s Public Schools. One of the most troubling parts of that identity instruction is the idea that you can’t say something — even if you think it’s true or important to discuss — because your words might “offend” some people.for instance: Our whole country is talking about it — but Chancellor Banks insists the topic is off limits in NYC schools.
Chancellor Banks brooks no compromise on the subject and many believe that is the real reason he removed me from my position.“Because some people might be offended” is not a good answer and one that does hold up to the protections we all enjoy under the First Amendment.I knew that the Chancellor’s Regulation D-210, the regulation used to remove me, was unconstitutional and would be used as a censor’s cudgel before it passed.
When he read the last line of the decision “It is further ordered that Plaintiff Maron shall be reinstated immediately to her elected position on CEC 2” I whooped with happiness — so much so that my 8-year-old came bounding out of his room to see what the ruckus was about.
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