Reply #8: Ban on taping teachers

[no_hypocrisy]

Don't think it will be held to be constitutional.

For one thing, it isn't wiretapping or eavesdropping as it is a public forum and not a private converation. Tax dollars pay for the teachers' lectures.

Next, if no taping, how is a student supposed to have appropriate evidence to prove that the teacher actually said what the student alleges. I don't subscribe to witnesses as the teacher may be popular or someone's grade may be riding on silence or maybe the other students even agree with the teacher. Plus, the student making the allegation is going to be a pariah just for the fact s/he complained. Unless the kid's parent is the president of the Board of Education, his allegations will be viewed either as a rant or pot-stirring or just fanciful interpretation.

If teachers in public schools are using their bully pulpit to promulgate unlawfully and unconstitutionally their religious views, they need to be held accountable.