•The court turned down an appeal of a court decision upholding a Tennessee ban on the Confederate flag on students’ clothes. The rationale for the ban was that the school was going through a period of racial tension and the flag just inflamed things.
If that’s true, it’s legitimate … but I’ve read too many accounts of administrators being very free in interpreting this or that piece of clothes as “disruptive.”
•The Supreme Court also turned down an appeal of a Florida court decision that a student could be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
I had thought that was settled back in the 1940s–the pledge can’t be forced–but the Florida position was that since the law allows parents to have their kids exempted, it doesn’t violate anyone’s rights. I find that daft, but …

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