student suspended for personal Web site content (fwd)

[Paul Henry Rosenberg]

Michael Hoover wrote:
> 
> > CNET News August 28, 1998, 1:35 p.m. PT
> >
> >  ...<SNIP>...
> >
> >  "Schools have somewhat greater leeway to regulate students' speech
> > within the school, than for example the government has to regulate adult
> > speech," said David Cole, a constitutional law professor at the
> > Georgetown University Law Center. "But as far as I know, that greater
> > leeway has never been extended to student speech outside the school
> > setting, nor should it."
> > --

In high school I ran for student council on a platform attacking the
council for its utter powerlessness.  Unlike other candidates who duly
turned out campaign posters, I created actual campaign
literature--leaflets.  I was informed by the principal that this was
illegal--it constituted littering.  I couldn't believe it.  He'd made my
point far more eloquently and emphatically than I could ever dreamed of
doing.

-- 
Paul Rosenberg
Reason and Democracy
rad at gte.net

 
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