I have had a incident happen in one of my classes. I have a teacher who cusses and one day he let a boy play a cd he had made. The boy said that if the words offended anyone to speak up. I told them that I would be offended and that I would go out in the hall. It bothered me so much that I wrote a email to the teacher and told him that I was offended by all of the fowl language that was used in the classroom by classmates and him. So today as I am walking to class the teacher walks up to me and tells me that he and the boy are going to apologize to the class. The teacher makes his remarks about being irresponsible and the other guy gets up and says "I am sorry if I offended anyone BUT (I held my breath here) I feel like I wasn't in the wrong. I told you what words were going to be in the song and that one girl (that would be me) got up and left." Then everyone starts to yell "First Amendment" and "Freedom of speech" The whole time I am thinking " Good grief, why do I feel like I am at the Salem Whitch trials all of a sudden?" Then I started to think, everyone is so big into freedom of speech, but what they don't realize is that freedom of speech is only important to them when everybody agrees with them. It is only when someone stands against the majority that "freedom of speech" is thrown in. I agree, I used freedom of speech! Though I do feel that as I was leaving everyone was saying "Witch, witch, witch!" Oh well! God was there with me and I survived!!!
