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Schools must act carefully on students' off-campus speech, Supreme Court rules

  • Written by Katy Harriger, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
imageThe Supreme Court ruled that a school could not punish a student for a profane Snapchat post made off campus.Eshma/iStock / Getty Images Plus

For decades, U.S. courts have ruled that public school students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as the Supreme Court said in...

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