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...also developing a hockey clinic for underprivileged youth in Boston this summer...
Over the past decade, social capitalists such as Harvard’s Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam have warned that civic participation is waning in the United States—especially among young people. America’s youth vote less and are less involved in their communities than previous generations. Too many American high schools are contributing to this trend by stifling the sort of free speech found in posters or t-shirts with war related messages. These schools are teaching their students that it is better to sit back and remain uncontroversial than create...
...reading writing and arithmetic; certainly, we ought to be equipping high-school students to become involved citizens, too. We should encourage the exercise of free speech rights on high school campuses, not shy away from free speech because it might offend someone. There is no better place for American youth to begin learning and engaging in public debate than in our public schools...
Free speech can sometimes be rude, crude and offensive, but it is still protected because public debate is essential to ensure the health of American democracy. In a nation that values the political pluralism of its citizens, youth must be encouraged to speak out at home and at school as early and as often as they are encouraged to vote. Only then will America’s public high schools graduate their students into the real world prepared for adult citizenship...
...school’s paper. Some of them were idiotic. Thus, I feel a kinship with Jonathan H. Esensten ’04, who will no doubt look back on “Death to Intelligent Design” with head-wagging bemusement at the folly of his youth (Column, March...