> Do you think this would have really caused a foreseeable risk of substantial disruption to anything? I find it very hard to believe. I can’t see how her presence on the student government would disrupt anything.
It could hardly contribute to a good, healthy, productive working relationship between the Student Government and the school’s Administration. She will have gotten away with being grossly disrespectful, and others will have known it.
Better to make an example of her, to encourage the others.
Yes, authoritarianism is clearly what the framers were going for.
The school’s power (and by extension, the governments) has to end over people somewhere. A blog posting made on a private computer away from school seems like a good place for it to stop.
And even if other students did know she called them douche bags that doesn’t mean it would cause a substantial disruption.