Can a peaceful protest at school be stopped?
I’m going to assume this is taking place in the US… You do have the right to peacefully protest, but where that protest can take place is the issue. The school has the right to stop the protest if it takes place on their property. If you continue to protest on their property after you have been told to stop, you can be charged with several offenses. My advice is that if you wish to peacefully protest, make it an organized event and contact your local police department. Let them know when you wish to hold the protest and roughly what area (somewhere near the school) that you’d like to do it. They should tell you where exactly you can be, where you cannot be and what you cannot do without crossing into doing something illegal. They will tell you things like you can’t block access to the school’s property, you cannot enter onto school grounds, you cannot make any threatening remarks to other students or teachers, etc. Unions do exactly the same thing when they want to have a peaceful “i
