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Can schools punish students for off-campus, online speech?

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imageWhat are free speech rights of students when they are off-campus?Michael Coghlan, CC BY-SA

In January 2014, Reid Sagehorn, a student at Rogers High School in Minnesota, jokingly tweeted “actually yeah” in response to a question about whether he had made out with one of his high school teachers.

The public school, acting on the tweet, susp...

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