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> A school is a public institution. How speech laws apply to public institution is not some crazy out there idea. It is well established. Free speech laws appl

> A school is a public institution. How speech laws apply to public institution is not some crazy out there idea. It is well established. Free speech laws apply differently in school. They're not exactly the same as other public institutions, as SCOTUS has ruled numerous times. Bethel v. Fraser[0] is an example where the Court ruled pretty clearly that the school can go as far as to prohibit sexual innuendo, it doesn't even have to be obscene or vulgar. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel_School_District_v._Fraser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel_School_District_v._Fras...

stale2002 5y ago
> They're not exactly the same as other public institutions, as SCOTUS has ruled numerous times. I didn't say that they were exactly the same. Instead I am saying that there is not some "huge can of worms" that is opened on up this topic, if the supreme court rules in favor of the student in this case. It is instead something that predictably might happen, and which will have predicable results that are in line with how things work in other examples. So, in other words, the sky will not fall, and schools will not collapse under the weight of not being allowed to punish students for purely off campus speech.