> In their opinion, the judges said they were “sympathetic” to her disappointment at being disqualified from running for Senior Class Secretary and acknowledged her belief that in this case, “the punishment did not fit the crime.”
Wrong call. The punishment did fit the crime. Children calling school superintendents “douche bags” is disrespectful. She has a right to Free Speech, but also a matching responsibility to show Respect for school authorities — or any adult, for that matter. Shame on her mom for enabling her rude behavior.
The school was right to bar this brat from running for Senior Class Secretary. Maybe next time she will keep a civil tongue in her head and show Respect for her elders.
So not only did Judge Sotomeyer get the Free Speech issue wrong, but she also got the answer right for all the wrong reasons — which is even worse!
In school, where officials have authority under a in loco parentis philosophy, I concur. If out of school, no way! You should have the right to call your teacher, your principal, your school board president whatever you want among your peers on a home computer.
If Sotomayor feels this way about teens expressing their opinion about school officials, there is no telling what she'd do if a case came before her in which a citizen was expressing his or her opinion about Lady Pelosi on the street or a certain talk radio personality fuming on the air about Hussein Obama!