Letter Of The Day

If the information published in a Feb. 26 article is correct, then Waterloo Principal Mary Meier has some serious apologizing to do to the students suspended from her school for distributing a flier that she evidently took personal offense to ("Students Suspended for Inappropriate Fliers").

The U.S. Constitution makes the right of the punished students very clear. If as Meier states the fliers contained no threats, then "inappropriate," as judged by Meier, is no justification for violating those rights. What kind of an example is Meier setting in a public educational institution when students can be seriously rebuked for disagreeing with a political position taken by a governmental entity?

"Inappropriate" ideas may fly in the face of Meier's personal definition of political correctness or perhaps the Waterloo school board's philosophies, but they are not illegal. Meier's actions may well be.
— Travis Gregory, Ames.

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