Let Coach Kennedy Pray
In <em>Kennedy v. Bremerton School District</em>, the Supreme Court has the chance to ensure that teachers are not the state’s robots.
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Few legal doctrines are contributing more to the culture war than the idea that America’s public-school teachers have no meaningful free-speech rights when they’re at work. The notion that teachers exist as mere agents of state expression—speaking only state-approved words—is dramatically escalating the stakes of the most pitched conflicts in American life, including political and legal fights over expansive anti–critical race theory legislation, laws governing instruction about LGBTQ issues, and rules and regulations mandating preferred-pronoun usage.
And that’s why Americans of any or no faith should hope that the Supreme Court permits a coach named Joseph
