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IPFS News Link • Education: Government Schools

School Tells 5th Grader He Cannot Keep Both First Place Prize and 1st Amendment Rights

• Jonathan Turley
Zachary Golob-Drake, a 5th grader at the Patel Partnership School in Tampa Florida was elated recently when he won first place with a speech and an invitation to compete in the 4-H Tropicana Public Speech Contest. However, his assistant principal then told him that he would be stripped of his honor because she did not like the topic of the speech, the history of people using religion to justify murder.  ...

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