Student in Court Over Suspension For YouTube Video

kozmonaut writes "A model student is in court this week over 40-day suspension for posting a mocking in-class video to YouTube of 'Mongzilla', a high school english teacher. The student is arguing he had First Amendment rights to publish the video, though it was filmed without permission in the classroom. 'Kent School District lawyer Charles Lind says the suspension had nothing to do with online criticism of the teacher. Rather, it was punishment for the disruption created by the students secreting a video camera into Joyce Mong's class and dancing in a mocking, disrespectful manner while her back was turned. "It's quite clear that the district is talking about conduct in the classroom and not the videotape," Lind said.'"

Re:Your Rights Online?

[FlyingSquidStudios]

Libel law takes away our freedom of besmirching!

Re:40 days?

[DrivingBear]

In my day kids got one week suspensions for smoking pot and getting in to fights.

But pot and fights never hurt anybody. He gave her bunny ears. There's no recovering from that kind of humiliation.

Re:Everyone knows that the camera dosn't lie

[Raistlin77]

...expelled for 40 days. That's 10% of the school year...

Really? A school year is longer than a calendar year?

Re:Your Rights Online?

[hkgroove]

Seriously. I broke into my school's voice mail system in 8th grade (teachers would leave homework assignments on them - it was called classroom snapshot) and I got 5 days suspension.

It was late May and absolutely gorgeous outside, so I sat at the pool all day and called the voice mail to get my daily assignments.

Re:Your Rights Online?

[elrous0]

Are you seriously saying that someone who beats the Hell out of a fellow human being deserves less punishment than someone who mocks another human being? You MUST be an American.

Re:Everyone knows that the camera dosn't lie

[Anonymous Coward]

Based on the math, I'd say the parent poster went to a school that had an extremely short school year.

What's in a name?

[metamatic]

You know, if I was a teacher and my name was "Mong", I would change my damn name.

Similarly, do not go into teaching under your original name if your name is "Tard", "Spaz" or "Ho".

Re:Everyone knows that the camera dosn't lie

[Red Flayer]

I think you missed the firsat part of his post:

Funny, I was never expelled for 40 days and I remember tossing my text book out the window in complete defiance...

Must have been his math textbook.