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Apr. 1, 2009
Students' Internet Use Is No Excuse for Limiting Free Speech
In a handful of recent decisions, courts have permitted public schools to punish lawful student speech occurring entirely off school premises and outside of school time.
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By Frank D. LoMonte The Supreme Court's 40-year-old assurance that students do not shed their right to free speech "at the schoolhouse gate" is being flipped on its head in the Internet age, with some federal courts ominously ruling that students no longer enjoy the full benefit of the First Amendment even on the weekend in their own bedrooms. In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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