Let's be clear here. The school board is a bunch of fucking muppets. Children swear. They express disappointment in poor ways. They're children. It's the school

Let's be clear here. The school board is a bunch of fucking muppets. Children swear. They express disappointment in poor ways. They're children. It's the schools job to know that and react with compassion and guidance, not removing a student from school for a year. It's not clear to me that a school should have the ability to punish people at all for off campus actions, let alone that this punishment is proportional to the event. This case is only about the schools ability to exercise arbitrary power over its students, and it was willing to take that to the supreme court-- something which is incredibly rare and expensive over something absolutely mundane and everyday.