Cheerleader's Snapchat rant tests students' free speech rights | Opinion
The would-be varsity cheerleader, the tattletale and Snapchat have converged in a Supreme Court free speech case sure to draw the interest of social media-loving students, concerned parents and wary school administrators everywhere. In 2017, a ninth-grade student in Schuylkill County, Pa., who failed to make the varsity cheerleading squad, vented her frustration in an F-bomb laced Snapchat post. She repeated the same curse before each of the words âschool,â âsoftball,â âcheerâ and âeverything.â A teammate told a coach about the post, and administrators ...