Regarding my last post

The so called "policy" is illegal.

Here is the case in which this was all decided:

U.S. Supreme Court

PICKERING v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, 391 U.S. 563 (1968)

391 U.S. 563 PICKERING v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
205, WILL COUNTY.
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS. No. 510.
Argued March 27, 1968.
Decided June 3, 1968.

"While criminal sanctions and damage awards have a somewhat different impact on the exercise of the right to freedom of speech from dismissal from employment, it is apparent that the threat of dismissal from public employment is nonetheless a potent means of inhibiting speech. We have already noted our disinclination to make an across-the-board equation of dismissal from public employment for remarks critical of superiors with awarding damages in a libel suit by a public official for similar criticism. However, in a case such as the present one, in which the fact of employment is only tangentially and insubstantially involved in the subject matter of the public communication made by a teacher, we conclude that it is necessary to regard the teacher as the member of the general public he seeks to be.

In sum, we hold that, in a case such as this, absent proof of false statements knowingly or recklessly made by him, 6 a teacher's exercise of his right to speak on issues of public importance may not furnish the basis for his dismissal from public employment. Since no [391 U.S. 563, 575] such showing has been made in this case regarding appellant's letter, see Appendix, infra, his dismissal for writing it cannot be upheld and the judgment of the Illinois Supreme Court must, accordingly, be reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion."