Should schools be allowed to limit students online speech? I think schools should be allowed because some student may try and take the internet to their advantage. So, what i mean by that is that student will post things on their social media and think nobody can do anything about it. Students will post things on social media about another person behind their back and before they know it they are getting bullied or being laughed at. Students or teachers can be victims of cyberbullying. In 2011 a teacher was being cyber bullied when he found out that an old student of his posted a photo of him containing strong language. The student who posted the photo was than caught and taken to the school district and was given further consequences. The
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It was a twelfth grader at musselman High-school. The 12th grader was caught having a hate website and was in violation of the schools districts policy against harassment, bullying, and intimidation. The student punishment was a ten day school suspension. The student who made the hate website felt that the school administrators were violating her free speech rights under the first amendment by punishing her for something that occurred outside of school. The student also thought that she would get away with it because it was outside of school. The student tried to take social media to their advantage because they thought they would not be punished for it. The first amendment states that citizens should be able to express and be exposed to wide range of opinions. Some countries have a law that if they opinion is a direct threat to someone they can lose their freedom. Limiting a students speech if they have not posted a threat violates the First amendment, which makes it unconstitutional. If the student is making a threat to someone online about another student than i think the schools administrators should have to do something with that because they are students and school administrators care for their students life
It was a twelfth grader at musselman High-school. The 12th grader was caught having a hate website and was in violation of the schools districts policy against harassment, bullying, and intimidation. The student punishment was a ten day school suspension. The student who made the hate website felt that the school administrators were violating her free speech rights under the first amendment by punishing her for something that occurred outside of school. The student also thought that she would get away with it because it was outside of school. The student tried to take social media to their advantage because they thought they would not be punished for it. The first amendment states that citizens should be able to express and be exposed to wide range of opinions. Some countries have a law that if they opinion is a direct threat to someone they can lose their freedom. Limiting a students speech if they have not posted a threat violates the First amendment, which makes it unconstitutional. If the student is making a threat to someone online about another student than i think the schools administrators should have to do something with that because they are students and school administrators care for their students life