Student suspended for sharing a news article about lawsuit against school district - The College Fix

Student suspended for sharing a news article about lawsuit against school district - The College Fix
A student ‘violated the school’s user policy involving technology’

One of the wacky recurring policies in college speech codes is improper use of campus information technology.

Georgetown Law formally banned students from using the campus network for “political speech” during the 2016 campaign. 

Some colleges’ policies are broad enough to ban sending or receiving lewd, inappropriate or similarly vague content. 

...And as you might expect, K-12 schools are still a gulag when it comes to the expressive rights of students.

Ohio’s Sandusky Register reports that a local high school suspended a student for three days after he used his school-provided email to share a news article with classmates.

...After they told the Register reporter there’s no such policy that bans students from “sharing negative news stories about the district,” the superintendent said with no further elaboration that a student “violated the school’s user policy involving technology.”...

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