A free speech lesson in Utah.A group of gay high school students in Salt Lake City who were suspended in May for refusing to remove antismoking an·ti·smok·ing adj. Opposed to or prohibiting the smoking of tobacco, especially in public: an antismoking campaign; an antismoking ordinance. T-shirts featuring the phrase QUEERS KICK ASH accused administrators of being antigay. But officials at Hillcrest High School Hillcrest High School is the name of several schools, among them: In New Zealand
"The term kicking ash is not a pleasant term," said Ted Lovato, executive director of the Jordan School District Jordan School District is the largest of Utah school districts, with 3,700 teachers who educate more than 80,000 students. An additional 3,500 employees provide support services for the system. , dismissing students' claims that assistant principal David Breen didn't like the word queer and had threatened to shut down the school's gay-straight alliance club, which Breen helped start. The American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. , which demanded the T-shirt ban be lifted and the suspensions reversed, said the case is really about free speech. "Our concern is that this is an antismoking shirt making a political statement," said Margaret Plane, an attorney with the ACLU of Utah. |
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