Sofia Cope has an important story on Electronic Frontier
Foundation, “In Historic Opinion, Third Circuit Protects Public School Students’
Off-Campus Speech”. The Third Circuit is
in Philadelphia (where the COPA trial was held in 2006).
The case was BL v. Mahanoy School District (40 miles
south of Wilkes-Barre). Here is the Opinion text.
A student who had not made the cheerleading team shared some nasty stuff about the school on Snapchat, which is ephemeral. Nevertheless, she was disciplined over the possibility her off-campus speech could create disruption at school.
The case is structurally a little bit similar to a
situation that happened in the fall of 2005 when I worked as a substitute
teacher (explained July 27, 2007). That incident is actually a backstory in a
screenplay I will try to peddle. I am beginning to think there was actual misconduct by someone else (another teacher).
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