Viewpoint: Schools should usually stay out of kids' online lives
April 30, 2021
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The following is from a Los Angeles Times editorial:
In a case that began with a teenager’s Snapchat rant against her cheerleading squad, the Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether and when a school can punish students for what they say online when they aren’t in school. We hope that the court will say: very rarely.
In 2017 a student known in court filings as B.L. was upset when she failed to make the varsity cheerleading team at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania. While hanging out with a friend at a local store, she took a photo of herself and her friend raising their middle fingers and posted it on Snapchat. Accompanying the photo was this message: “F- school, F- softball, F- cheer, F- everything.”