Political correctness trumps free speech...

Here's an interesting case study from Johnson, Rhode Island:

One day last month, Schools Superintendent Margaret Iacovelli picked up a CD that one of her administrators had handed her, popped it into a CD player, tapped "play" and listened.

The high-school students on the homemade CD rapped about a football game, friends and lackluster cars. They also sang about the sexual tendencies of girls at the school and what Iacovelli could only hope was metaphorical rape, murder and gunplay.

In playing the CD, Iacovelli had come face-to-face with a troubling question that schools across the country have struggled to answer: Do students' First Amendment rights trump school policies? Or do school officials have the right to discipline students for activities they disapprove of?

After an investigation, the school district's administration would come down on the side of discipline. Four days after Iacovelli listened to the CD, the 14 students involved in making it were suspended for violating the high school's harassment policy, given 10 hours of community service and told they would have to go through in-school sensitivity training.

I could just imagine what is taught in that 'sensitivity training.'