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Like every high school freshman ever, 14-year-old Brandi Levy had a bad week. She missed the cut for her high school’s varsity cheerleading team. She struggled at softball practice. And she worried about her final exams. So like every high school freshman, Levy vented. “F - school f - softball f - cheer f - everything,” she posted to her friends on Snapchat on a Saturday afternoon.
Unlike every other high school freshman, Levy’s angry snap spawned a controversy that is now before the Supreme Court.
Levy’s message, it turns out, found its way to her cheerleading coaches, who suspended her from the team. Two lower courts ruled that this violated Levy’s right to free speech, and the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in her case Wednesday.
Brandi Levy s case could have major implications for student free speech Cheerleaders / YouTube screenshot Kevin Daley • April 19, 2021 6:15 pm
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Brandi Levy was at a convenience store called Cocoa Hut when she posted a Snapchat that would land her in the Supreme Court.
The rising sophomore wanted to broadcast her anger after learning she would spend a second year on the JV cheer squad at her Scranton-area school. Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything, Levy captioned a selfie in which she held up the middle finger. Her coaches removed her from the team after they saw a screenshot of the photo. That punitive step set off a major First Amendment battle over school power to police student speech off campus, which the justices will consider later this month.
TRENTON A bill that seeks to strengthen New Jersey’s anti-bullying law is back where it was 18 months ago – approved overwhelmingly by the Senate and awaiting consideration in the Assembly.
The bill was passed unanimously by the full Senate in December, supported even by one lawmaker Sen. Mike Doherty, R-Warren who had abstained during the earlier committee vote because he had heard from school districts about bureaucratic concerns caused by the original anti-bullying law.
“Nobody supports bullying in schools, and we think that all students should have a safe and happy learning environment,” said Doherty.
The bill, S1790, requires school districts to include in their anti-bullying policies the specific consequences for a student harassing, intimidating or bullying a schoolmate. It also requires superintendents to provide a school board data on the number of confirmed bullying reports.
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