"Governments in our part of the world," he continues, "have sole ownership and full authority over all means of expression, from school books to the media".
The League's founders were acting in response to a rumour that financial problems might cause the academy to close its doors, but they also were dissatisfied with the academy's conservative and traditional bent and wanted to create a school that allowed more freedom of expression.
Amid an explosion in social and mobile media -- their media -- high school students are supporting freedom of expression in record numbers, and are even more likely to do so if they also have had a class in the First Amendment.
The SEF report states, "In most of these private schools, any expression of being gay or voicing support or tolerance of gay persons or homosexuality anywhere outside of school, including in the home by anyone in the student's family constitutes grounds for expulsion".
Nakamura very much belongs to the Kasparovian school of thought regarding facial expression.
The emphasis in our schools seems to be "creativity of expression," rather than accuracy in grammar, with the result that when an 18-year-old goes to college, he/she has never been taught how to use the apostrophe correctly.
Assigned to shoot background footage for an audiovisual class, he happens to capture the horrific incident on video and is eventually put in charge of the school's official expression of grief, a memorial video.
In particular, the TJC focuses its attention on high school and college campuses, where freedom of expression is regarded with ever-increasing skepticism in 2017.
Langman pointed specifically to "leakage" — when a potentially violent individual "leaks" his intention to commit violence against himself or others in the form of a direct threat, a warning to friends to stay away, a social media post, a school assignment or some other form of expression.
He cautioned, however, that "school officials may not take a sledgehammer to freedom of expression and then avoid all scrutiny by invoking alleged professional judgment".
