Students Can Be Punished For Online Speech

Are you still in school? Do you like having lively debates in the forums? If you answered those questions "yes," you should probably read this.

The Philadelphia-based appellate court cautioned that not all off-campus, student speech was protected. It based that conclusion on a 1969 Supreme Court ruling that held student expression may not be suppressed unless school officials reasonably conclude that it will "materially and substantially disrupt the work and discipline of the school."

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