Student's Free Speech Case May Lead To Legislation

In his ruling on a pioneering Internet free speech case last month, U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz offered something of a plea to higher courts: Revisit the boundaries of free speech for students.

Kravitz was siding with Burlington school administrators accused of violating the First Amendment rights of a student they disciplined for a blog post she wrote off school grounds. And he offered an argument for why, in the Internet age, the old ... Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Feb. 2, 2009

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.

i would tend to judge this differently here than i would if it were not children involved. (teen-agers in my view still need adult guidance and limits)

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