Judge Rules On Student's Slur -- Courant.com
This case from my state was percolating in the news at the end of last school year. I will direct you to the article from the Hartford Courant for the current state of affairs. The short version is that the student was active in school affairs and a popular spring activity was canceled because of some kind of screw up by the adults at the district level. The girl reacted in her blog and wrote the above slur about her Supt. School found out, she had to have her mother come in, had to apologize, had to pull down the post(s) and was not allowed to run for class secretary. Banning her from running from office was the last straw. She protested and went to court. Case raised all kinds of on campus /off campus free speech issues that the judge has to sort through.
My take? As I wrote last spring, adults have to step up and not be thin skinned. It was an educational opportunity that the student certainly seized and is learning from. And I hereby declare that as a teacher I have at times been a douche-bag, the principals I work for at times have been douche-bags, and my central office staff have been douche-bags. And we will be again. I only hope the folks in her school district learn as much as she will from this case.
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