White supremacy petition started at an American high school in Maryland

[Myanthropologies]

Aren't you a teenager anyways?

I'm 20. I graduated from HS in 2014.

[Smitty]

It's not arbitrary. As I pointed already the English language doesn't come from a cultural void. It's understood that using particular language will cause disruptions and by disruptions I mean fist fights. By government funds you mean taxes paid by the community. A community has a standard of behavior. Parents don't send their children to school to learn how to box and children don't have the sophistication to not respond towards an obvious provocation by other students.

You talk about this as if these kids (who don't know shit about anything) are having their personal liberties stepped on by an over bearing government because of a standard of behavior for children that the vast majority of parents don't take issue.

I don't find the majority argument convincing because the point of freedom of speech is to defend minority views. If we had a rabidly racist community in the South, no one would oppose a student violating the school's racist speech rules, even if it caused a disruption.

You make a good point that the goal of public schools is education, and schools should shape the environment to further that end. But the rules will ultimately be arbitrary, either the majority deciding what's okay or a vocal minority - perhaps the school leaders - deciding what's okay. Why are Christian students forbidden to give religious graduation speeches, for example? If freedom of speech is incompatible with early education, then again, I want government out of it. Then, at least students will cede their freedom of speech to the entity they or their parents choose.