re: Cheerleader Free Speech Case Puts Liberals in a Bind

Honestly this one should not have gone to the courts. this is going to court because two sides would not come together and find an acceptable solution. Being kicked off the team for the year seems excessive (however we don't know if this girl has had other disciplinary issues.) What ever happened to you have 5 after school 30 minute towel pushing sessions and then you can rejoin the team. The girl was frustrated and took it out on snapchat. I feel like there are probably some better ways to teach a lesson than kicking someone off a team for having a bad attitude. I am personally not a fan of zero-tolerance rules like the one found in the code of conduct here. If you can't listen to the context that a incident took place in, then you have no business being an administrator.

As far as the courts, I can't believe this SCOTUS picked this one up. Monitoring online behavior outside of school is a herculean task and one in which the schools should not be required, nor barred from. Seems like something they wouldnt want to create this level of precedence on. I will be interested to see how this one comes out, I am sure that the courts will trying to narrow the scope as much as possible, even as a conservative, I don't see this being purely a free speech issue, there should be some ramifications for what you say if it is uncivil.