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School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights

An anonymous reader writes "The ACLU is suing Minnewaska Area Schools and Pope County, according to this article in the StarTribune. At issue: school administrators and a sheriff's deputy forced a girl to hand over login information to her Facebook and email accounts, after she posted on Facebook that she 'hated' a school hall monitor who had been 'mean' to her, and cursed in a separate Facebook comment because someone reported her. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and an order that would restrain school officials from attempts to regulate or discipline students based on speech made outside of school hours and off school property."

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  1. Re:What about the parents? by stephanruby · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free speech aside, don't you USAns have a constitutional right to not incriminate yourself ?

    Yes, that twelve year old girl folded like a little girl. She's a wimp. That's mostly the parents fault of not training her properly. When I have kids, they'll be able to survive police intimidation and interrogation techniques by the time they're three years old. In fact, the first word they'll learn won't be "Mama" or "Papa", it will be "IwantMyLawyerImNotTalkingToYouPigs".

  2. Re:What about the parents? by maitai · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a native (Yurok), wtf are you talking about?

  3. Re:What about the parents? by gv250 · · Score: 5, Funny

    To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
    To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
    To Northerners, a Yankee is from the East.
    To Easterners, a Yankee is from New England.
    To New Englanders, a Yankee is from Vermont.
    And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast