Three John Jay High School honor students were recently suspended for saying the word vagina during a reading of Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues". The reading was performed at a public reading session and the average age group of those attending were of high school age. No young children were reported in the audience. Before the reading school administrators told the girls not to use the word vagina but they did so anyways. The school administrators are trying to reason the suspension as being punishment for not obeying what was asked. But anybody with common sense knows this is not the case. Rather this is yet another example of how political correctness and the fear of hurting some one's feelings is slowly sucking the life out of the 1st amendment right of freedom of speech. It is also affecting how today's youth are learning how to think for themselves and speak their views openly. They can't!
What ever happened to "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me"?
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