Sometimes I blog about my dislike for the direction of the public school system. Today, in the NY Times, there was an article about a principal canceling a play that the student's wrote about the Iraq War because it wasn't "politically balanced" and "Foxified."

Here are some quotes from the article:

For the spring semester, students in the advanced theater class took on a bigger challenge: creating an original play about the war in Iraq.

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the school principal last week canceled the play, titled “Voices in Conflict,” citing questions of political balance and context.

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“It would be easy to look at this case on first glance and decide this is a question of censorship or academic freedom,” said Mr. Canty, who attended Wilton High himself in the 1970s and has been its principal for three years. “In some minds, I can see how they would react this way. But quite frankly, it’s a false argument.”

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The big question is: "How can we fix free speech in the school?" This isn't limited to High Schools. When I was at the University of Minnesota, one of my lecturers was on the "beautification committee" and he seemed focused on removing anything that would bother corporate America... at the expense of squashing student expression such as letting them hang posters around campus.

When actions like this happen in high schools, it makes my think that the intellectual foundations of our schools are contrived and not worthy of my tax dollars...

What do you guys and gals think?