new york city public school. it was under the ejiss of joel kline, the chancellor of the board of education and had the same curriculum of all the other schools, it just always taught arabic. now, we embarked on this story. debbie had been given a hard time in the press, and we thought that the doe and people who were involved would come talk to us. but everywhere there waws lot of, we won't talk about this. the department of education wouldn't talk to us about the case. there was a group that was formed that was stop the mad drassa. they wouldn't talk to us. so you find that even when you're making a film about free speech not everyone is so willing to talk to you. host: let's hear from new jersey now. caller: hi. how are you doing? host: good. caller: it's certainly an interesting topic. my assessment is that in often cases it's misinterpreted. i think one has to look at who wrote this into the constitution and why. and i believe that it was the people giving themselves the right to protest the government, which is who they feared the most back then. but now it's taken out of context many times to use for every litt