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.'"

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Funny. I thought being a model student was about going to school to learn. I don't care about the GPA. They haven't been into any kind of (serious) trouble prior, they go to school, behave (more or less) and then go home. IMHO, a model student does NOT mean straight A's, although the two tend to go hand-in-hand, that is no guarantee.

That would just make him/her a good student, but not necessarily a "model" student. The #1 priority for a student is to learn, and the best existing guage of how good of a learning he/she is GPA (may not be perfect, but that's the best we have). If you are not exceptional in GPA, I don't know how you can label a student "model".

I really resent this "everybody is special" mentality. If you are a model, you should be exceptional. Being average (and what you describe would have been true for majority of the kids in my high school) is NOT MODEL BEHAVIOR!!!

Look, Giselle is a model because her hotness is off the chart. A girl next door may be cute, but she is certainly not in the same league.