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What public school students are allowed to say on social media may be about to change

  • Written by Scott F. Johnson, Professor of Law, Concord Law School
imageStudent speech in public schools has less protection than speech by adults in the community at large.Noam Galai/Getty Images

After a high school cheerleader in Pennsylvania dropped a series of F-bombs about her school in a Snapchat post over a weekend in the spring of 2017, she was suspended from the cheerleading team and sued the school district,...

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