In response to: Why student free speech rights don’t extend to high school graduation speakers (June 9):
As a proud Franklinton (NC) High School graduate, I say shame on the Clayton High School principal for her actions toward CHS graduate Leen Hijaz during her speech. I wish I had the consciousness or the awareness of the plight of others as a senior to make such profound and challenging comments during my own valedictory 39 years ago.
The idle and unlawful threat to withhold her graduation if she didn’t curtail her commentary is in opposite to enlightened education. It prizes order over discovery, control over inquiry, stability over creativity, and management over imagination…