Posted: June 20th, 2017

To make time for more standardized testing, the public school you attend has decided to reduce the lunch hour to 15 minutes. You’ve published a one-page flyer that criticizes the change and points to the link between higher test scores and proper nutrition. Which of the following acts violates the First Amendment?

To make time for more standardized testing, the public school you
attend has decided to reduce the lunch hour to 15 minutes. You’ve
published a one-page flyer that criticizes the change and points to the
link between higher test scores and proper nutrition. Which of the
following acts violates the First Amendment?
a. You are standing on the public sidewalk in front of the local
grocery peacefully handing your flyers to customers as they leave.
The store manager — an ardent supporter of standardized testing –
sees you and rips the flyers from your hands and orders you to
leave the area.
b. You arrive at school. As you are stashing the flyers in your locker
to hand out to students after school, your principal walks by and
spots them. He tells you that he won’t stand for such criticism and
lack of respect for authority. He takes your flyers away, rips them
in half and throws them in the trash.
c. Both a and b.
d. Neither a or b.