Student Free Speech Rights

A Pennsylvania cheerleader used very vulgar language on Snapchat to express her anger when she was not promoted to the varsity cheer team. She was disciplined for this by her high school. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that such speech was protected by the First Amendment but added that schools do have the right to discipline out of school speech that is, for instance, harassing or bullying. NPR's Nina Totenberg has the story here. 3 min. 36 sec. transcript available.