I would support the DOE's ban on political advertising (whether posters, buttons, or whatever) in schools. The kids are a captive audience, and whether by teachers or the school administration, political appeals are, I believe, an impermissible pressure on them.

If teachers want to have political bumper stickers on their cars in the school parking lot, I'd say that's fine, because it's sufficiently removed from the authority pressure in the classroom. The teachers can put their buttons in their lapels as they leave the school.

Dave Oesterreich