From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:56:31 -0500, shawn   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:11:20 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>These protocol-communist teachers are allowed to tweet and protest and scream   
   >>obscenities at and about the police all day, they can even put anti-ICE   
   >>propaganda on the walls of their classroom, but one teacher takes the   
   opposite   
   >>viewpoint and he loses his job.   
   >>   
   >>How is that even remotely legal? The government is now telling its employees   
   >>that they can only express their political opinions in public if they support   
   >>the government's views?   
   >   
   >I don't know the rules in IL. but if it's a right to work state (what   
   >a name) there's nothing illegal about it. Though I suppose the union   
   >could fight it but probably won't.   
      
   School districts are quasi-governmental organizations and thus can not   
   discriminate for freedom of speech.  Right to work does not apply if   
   if the lawa is being violated.   
      
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