free speech in the classroom

This week i was given a project in my classroom, it was a speech to be presented. The speech was a persuasive one were you must pick a side. Now normally this is a normal project for most people, however there were some stipulations to go along with it. We were not allowed to touch certain topics no matter if we choose the pro or con side of the argument. Topics given to us to avoid were such things as abortion and religon along with many more. Now i do respect this, but at the same time should we not be treated as adults. As adults we should be able to argue are views on the matter with out anything more than an argument from the opposing side, and part of being an adult is tolerance and/or acceptance of anothers point of view. Now i just wrote this because it was a free write this week for class however if anyone feels like answering whether or not they agree or disagree i say go for it.

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Well seeing as how i have gotten a free week to type this blog i have decided to rant about the Clemson VT game. So far from what i have seen take place in the first two quarters we have basically sucked. Now i am a hard core Clemson fan so it hurts me to write this, but i have got to remain objective in order to be fair. I thought that VT offence was good however i did not believe that they would be this good they have played well tonight i will give them that. Clemson defense has played well also and in order to keep the score as low as they have on offensive drives (remember a lot of it was special teams fault). What i wanted to rant about is our special teams and offense. True they could be having an off night however i believe they really need some work in order to be as good as they could be. Of course special teams needed work last year to. I mean they let what two returns in for a touch down and almost a third if a flag hadn't been thrown. Offense, what bugged me about them tonight was something that was not the norm for them. Harper kept throwing the ball behind the line of scrimage and into traffic instead of look down field even just a yard. Now before anyone disagrees with me saying this i understand that i shouldn't say anything unless i played too, but this was on my mind at the time i wrote the blog.