Peter Berger: Students and First Amendment rights

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Peter Berger, an English teacher at Weathersfield School, who writes “Poor Elijah’s Almanack.” The column appears in several publications, including the Times Argus, the Rutland Herald and the Stowe Reporter.
Back when James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway hung out in bars, the bespectacled Joyce would pick a fight with another patron. Then just before things came to blows, he’d duck behind his burlier friend and direct him to “