In a country where high school students cannot even correctly identify the century in which the American Civil War was waged, and who are able to name more of the Seven Dwarfs than sitting Supreme Court Justices, at least students in Andover High School will be very familiar with the historical term "ethnic cleansing," and how the world's singular and most egregious example of its continued practice is, of course, found in the "apartheid Zionist regime" of Israel.

Thanks to the efforts of Ron Francis, an Andover High physics teacher, and six of the School's history teachers, students will be have the rare opportunity of listening to the Leftist, anti-American, anti-Israel view of the "Wheels of Justice" organization, apologists for the Palestinian cause who preach to students that terrorism, the random murder of civilians in the resistance effort, is a justifiable tool in the Palestinian effort of self-determination against the Colonial settler "project" -- not State -- of Israel.

There was some controversy at the end of October when Andover High's principal, alerted to the actual nature and content of the Wheels of Justice traveling bus tour, temporarily postponed the visit until other speakers, offering a counterbalance to the dialogue, could be found. Tom Meyers, president of the teacher's union and an outspoken supporter of Mr. Francis and his views, was "shocked, shocked" by the School's decision to exclude the lecturers and limit someone's First Amendment rights, although it is not entirely clear exactly whose rights were being denied. The Constitution protects an individual's right to express their views, no matter how reprehensible, in what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes termed the broad, public "marketplace of ideas," but nowhere is it incumbent on any institution, and certainly not public schools, to be forced to sponsor, or provide a public platform for, the ravings of any outside individual, merely because that individual has a message he or she is eager to express...