Recently there has been an incident involving freedom of speech in the town directly next to my hometown. There was an incident in Duxbury high school where a gym teacher was fired and had his teaching license revoked for reasons that were not all that clear. This isn't the real problem though the real problem came after he was fired. To show their distress as the teacher was loved by many students and no one believed he should have been fired, students began to wear "Free T" shirts they made, because his name was Coach T. The school administrators have told the students that they cannot wear them and they cannot do anything to express their feelings about the issue. This is completely against the students' first amendment rights to freedom of speech, as they are being told they cannot speak there minds about the issue, and are punished if they do. Students are given detentions if they wear shirts, and are being threatened with suspension. I couldn't believe something like this was happening in the town right next to mine, and I am shocked by the way the school is dealing with this situation. First amendment rights do count in public school, and the administration has no right to tell the students what to think or what they can or can't say.