The state of Iowa issued its second denial of a school district s request to hold online classes since August on Friday this time to the Iowa City Community School District.
In an ongoing disagreement between state and local health and education officials in Iowa about what constitutes safe learning conditions amid a global pandemic, the Iowa Department of Education denied the Iowa City district s request to temporarily hold classes remotely beginning Monday, Jan. 11, on the basis that Johnson County s 14-day virus positivity rates, which have hovered between 11% and 13% this week after falling to as low as 6.9% shortly after Christmas, are currently too low to justify online-only learning.
Cheerleader’s First Amendment Snapchat Case Headed for SCOTUS
28 Dec 2020
It’s been years since a teen in Pennsylvania took to Snapchat to express her frustration in vulgar terms of not making the varsity cheerleading team. After a screenshot of the post led to her suspension from the squad for one year and a successful suit by the student only identified as B.L., four years later the case is heading to the United States Supreme Court.
“F ck school, f ck softball, f ck cheer, fuck everything,” she wrote, with a photo of herself giving the middle finger.
After her parents, Lawrence and Betty Lou Levy sued the school district for the suspension the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the action violated B.L.’s First Amendment rights by trying to regulate her speech while off-campus.