Thorough, well contextualized story that uses one case to examine how new laws could allow public schools to extend their reach in regulating student speech. This is a hugely important topic whose impact is not widely understood. The Courant explains it well in this piece, though sourcing could have been broader, and there were a couple quotes that were inconsequential. All around highly recommended.

the story illustrates the difficulty of keeping up our ability to process the changes brought about by technologies and the rate of such changes. various perspectives are represented here for the question posed with reasonable points made on most of those.

An extremely important issue, presented in a fairly disorganized fashion. For example, Columbine-type situations, which are mentioned at the end of the article, are completely different from situations in which schools are dealing with language or actions that would simply be inappropriate or disruptive had they taken place on school property.

Ms. Becker writes an article that could stir a bee's nest. Censorship off school grounds is an area that is gray at best.As long as there is no violent intent to anyone, I don't see how you can censor somebody just for being mean to someone. While their are bullies and just plain assholes everywhere, they have a right to speak their minds, even if it is idiotic.

The use of quotes is very effective. There are numerous quotes that demonstrate that this story was well researched and add credibility.

Too general...

It presents the very real issue of attempts to control and suppress free speech by agents of a government entity. The story could be better organized, but it does provide a number of good quotes and reference to previous relevant court cases. It also presents both sides of the issue in a pretty even way.

Rather unorganized story. Made it a little confusing to read.

Definitely..gets to all sides. This is a topic that will shift and change daily as we have more and more free speech - you can try to control it, but really...school officials have to get thicker skin.