Fitzpatrick said the memes were harmless and mocked the principal’s overly serious demeanor.
GP: A Tennessee high school student has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against their school district after being suspended for posting memes of the principal during non-school hours.
The 17-year-old senior, identified only as “I.P.” in court filings, is suing Tullahoma City Schools.
Last August, the student was called to the office for making memes of Tullahoma High School Principal Jason Quick and posting them to their Instagram account over summer break and at their home after the second day of school.
The images feature the principal holding a box of vegetables, dressed as an anime cat girl, and with a cartoon bird from the “Regular Show” clinging to his leg.
Ultimately, the student was suspended for three days. The school official cited a rule against students posting photos intended to “embarrass, demean or discredit any student or staff.” more
I have not put much thought into it, but I am inclined to side with the school here.
“..a rule against students posting photos intended to “embarrass, demean or discredit any student or staff.”
You can’t get up in the morning without breaking some rule, law, mandate, regulation…. We are the most controlled “free” people in the history of the world.
obiden-principal, suck dick
I WAS SUSPENDED FOR LESSER EXPENSES
I PREFERRED THE SWATS OPTION WHEN OFFERED AS ANY OTHER INVOLVED MY PARENTS AND MY DADS “SWATS” WERE UGLY
Communists have no sense of humor.
…OFFENSES, NOT EXPENSES
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we bez impotent, u can’t ridicule us
I wonder what would’ve happened to my friend and I had we gone ahead and shipped that blowup doll we were going to to our principal back in the 70’s?
🤔
I also wonder what he said to the sand blaster company we sent to his house instead?
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next time “I.P.” Just send a sand blaster.
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Vice Principals were even more disliked that Principals were back when I graduated from HS in 1971. VPs were the enforcers and were generally major league pricks and universally hated by the students.
Than not that.
Maybe some school principals need to be embarrassed. I’m all for the kid expressing himself. Isn’t that what giving the child what he whines for is all about? The kid has a the same privileges that we all do to free speech, free to express, free to be whatever you want to be. He might win, hard to say.
I’m inclined to side with the kid here since this was all done outside of school hours and not on school property, but I do have a few questions, coming from someone who does not do social media. How did the principal know what was on the kid’s Instagram account? Does he check the social media accounts of ALL of his students? That sounds creepy to me.
“The Supreme Court has been clear: Unless a student’s off-campus expression causes a substantial disruption at school, the job of policing their speech falls to parents, not the government.”
Yep, no disruption here, just the butthurt feelings of an overly sensitive bureaucrat with an over-inflated opinion of himself.
And when the principal loses in court, who will pay the damages; the principal or the school district (tax payers). We all know the answer.
today’s over-paid edu-macators are more likely to be arrested for “vice” offenses – schools are handy victim-pools for obiden perverts
It’s another good reason not to be in a government indoctrination center in the first place.
How is it feelings trump someone else’s free-speech? Feelings can change at any time and land you in trouble at the drop of the hat. One of the keys to being an adult would be to deal with hurt feelings with humor , works most every time.
Don’t forget that under free speech and freedom of expression, you can burn the American flag. Some piddly ass principal thinks he’s going to win?