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Student in Court Over Suspension For YouTube Video
kozmonaut writes "A model student is in court this week over 40-day suspension for posting a mocking in-class video to YouTube of 'Mongzilla', a high school english teacher. The student is arguing he had First Amendment rights to publish the video, though it was filmed without permission in the classroom. 'Kent School District lawyer Charles Lind says the suspension had nothing to do with online criticism of the teacher. Rather, it was punishment for the disruption created by the students secreting a video camera into Joyce Mong's class and dancing in a mocking, disrespectful manner while her back was turned. "It's quite clear that the district is talking about conduct in the classroom and not the videotape," Lind said.'"
But pot and fights never hurt anybody. He gave her bunny ears. There's no recovering from that kind of humiliation.
How can that be?
...expelled for 40 days. That's 10% of the school year...Really? A school year is longer than a calendar year?
Based on the math, I'd say the parent poster went to a school that had an extremely short school year.