Yes. First amendment does not apply to minors and school rules aren’t laws.
If the school says you can’t post anything negative about them on social media, you can’t.
This will be a civil suit, if anything.
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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Yeah, I deleted my post because technically Tinker v. Des Moines says students do have 1A rights… but the truth is Tinker v. Des Moines is rarely upheld and later cases have weakened it a lot. In particular, anything that could be considered disruptive is not protected. Most truly important free speech tends to be disruptive. A video of students not wearing masks is going to panic people (as it should) and might make parents keep their kids home (like they should).
But that’s certainly disruptive, so I don’t think Tinker v. Des Moines would stand here.
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this is the biggie
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
I’ll bet that some of these bastards also enjoy immunity from suit because of COVID.
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You should probably include the tweet in the article about the tweet.
Also, the whistleblower in Georgia who got suspended is a she.
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Those students should protest their faces being broadcast across the world and take action to keep it from happening again… maybe by wearing masks of some sort.
/s
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Every single kid should record video and post it.
If they suspend them all, it will be a lot safer.
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Likely legal since many schools have rules about (among other things) posting images of fellow students online without permission. Absolutely immoral and inexcusable in this context.
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Whistleblower protections extend to minors, as well.
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With luck there’s a good lawyer willing to make that case in court on a pro-bono basis.
In practice, most students (and students’ families) in this situation wouldn’t want to risk mucking up the kid’s personal life or academic future with a public and costly court battle.
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Depends a lot if its a private or public school. If it’s public, this is not going to end well for the school.
Failed State monicker fits:
Kemp ran for governor while being Georgia’s Secretary of State (that is, he himself was in charge of the board of elections). Oh, and he won the election. What a coincidence!
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We don’t do that shit here. Go to 8chan.
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Yikes! All I went looking for was a public twitter account. Pretty sure people on this fine site, including those that post the stories, do in fact encourage people to call or email public figures on their official public facing email address to express their displeasure about something that public figure did. Nowhere did I imply that you should should contact him via any private (phone, home address etc) means. That would cross a line. Jeez…
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Pretty sure the home of both of those is Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg.
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The First Amendment applies to anyone within the jurisdiction of the United States.
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They could have got away with it if it hadn’t been for that pesky kid.
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Doxxing is not welcome here. Do that elsewhere.
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Well until enough people die. Then it’s all “Why didn’t you stop this!”
Authoritarians are like corrupt businessmen (and the rest of us really) : When their wrongs go unchallenged for long enough, they forget that they are breaking the rules.
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