Author Mike Marqusee clashed with administrators at Scarsdale High School in New York in 1968 first over a request to register the radical Students for a Democratic Society as a club and later over student-initiated teacher evaluation forms. He was suspended from school for distributing the forms.
Marqusee says freedom of expression in schools allows students to consider social issues and develop critical abilities vital to functioning in a democracy. He says, “In schools, free expression ought to be seen not as a luxury but as an educational necessity, an indispensable tool for learning about our world.” -db
From the First Amendment Center, August 24, 2011, by David L. Hudson Jr.