I. INTRODUCTION Deb Mayer taught a multi-age fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classroom in a college town in the middle of Indiana. (2) Using the magazine, Time for Kids, Ms. Mayer taught a school approved unit on the Iraq war. (3) An age appropriate conversation ensued in which Ms. Mayer facilitated the students' discussion of war and the possible alternatives--including peace. (4) A student asked Ms. Mayer if she had ever done anything to support peace. (5) Ms. Mayer responded, "[w]hen I drive past the courthouse square and the demonstrators are picketing I honk my horn for peace because their signs say, '[h]onk for peace.'" (6) Ms. Mayer was "ultimately discharged" because of her classroom discussion. (7)
