Student's Rights?

There's been a lot of hype about students' rights to free speech and whether or not they should be restricted or broadened.  I personally believe that things are fine the way they are.  I mean, it's up to the school to decide how restricted students' free speech is, but most of them do a decent job already.  If a student's expression of free speech encroaches on the education aspect of school, so much that it distracts the teacher, then that free speech should be restricted.  The purpose of school is to mature physically, socially, and most importantly, mentally; when something hampers the students' maturity or teachers' delivery of maturity to the students, that something should be eliminated.  It is as simple as that. 

You may ask, what counts as encroachment on the education process?  To what extent may something be considered encroachment?  In the end, it is the teacher that decides.  Students may say to the teacher that something happens to be offensive to them, but it is up to the teacher to decide whether or not that form of free speech should be removed from the classroom environment.  There have been a few court cases relating to this, but so far, I think schools are capable of finding that line of encroachment.  The line is in different places for every school.