This is depressing. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation surveyed high school students, teachers, and administrators on their views on the First Amendment:
- “Nearly three-fourths of high school students either do not know how they feel about the First Amendment or admit they take it for granted.”
- “Seventy-five percent erroneously think flag burning is illegal.”
- “Half believe the government can censor the Internet.”
- “More than a third think the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees.”
Not to worry, though! Surely our new Secretary of Education will turn this around, won’t she? I mean, now that the administration is done paying journalists to promote No Child Left Behind? Or maybe she’ll be too busy smacking around disobedient PBS affiliates for airing Travels With Buster?