“The only way to be happy is for everyone to be made equal. So, we must burn the books, Montag. All the books.”— Ray Bradbury, “ Fahrenheit 451 ”

A college education, or a high school one, isn’t just the stuff formally put forward by certified teachers in approved texts during set hours.

It’s the interaction with other students, from different places and backgrounds, with teachers and professors outside a classroom setting, with guest speakers from far away, or just people you would not otherwise have come into contact with.

But, in Utah’s current political climate, the prospect of people saying things that offend the powers that be so petrifies some school administrators that they are shutting down many, if not all, forms of extracurricular expression.

Just to be fair.

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