Never Too Young to Be Punished for Thoughtcrime
Some children come out of public schools unable to read and write; others don’t get through the first grade without learning about totalitarianism:
A California 7-year-old was banned from drawing pictures at school and forced to sit out recess for two weeks for adding “any life” below Black Lives Matter on a picture she drew and gave to a Black friend, punishments that led to a federal lawsuit.
No one disputes what happened at Viejo Elementary School in Orange County:
The student, identified as B.B., drew the picture, which also included four colored-in ovals representing herself and three friends, after a lesson on Martin Luther King, Jr., and gave it to her friend, M.C., who took it home, where her mother saw it.
It is considered racist to suggest that all lives matter. M.C.’s mother complained to authorities.
The principal confronted B.B. and told her the drawing was “inappropriate” and “racist” and that she couldn’t draw at school anymore and had to apologize to her friend. When she returned to class, her teachers told her she was not allowed to play at recess for two weeks.
B.B.’s mother sued.
U.S. Central District Court Judge David Carter acknowledged that M.C.’s parents didn’t want B.B. punished and that neither student understood why B.B. was apologizing.
“Undoubtedly, B.B.’s intentions were innocent,” Carter said in ruling for the district. “B.B. testified that she gifted the Drawing to M.C. to make her feel comfortable after her class learned about Martin Luther King Jr.”
Yet Carter came down on the side of the thought police, on the grounds that “an elementary school … is not a marketplace of ideas.”
On a tip from Ed McAninch.
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