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Inspired by r/MensRights some of my friends and I created this Facebook page. It has goten us all in trouble at school but we all stuck to our believes and the page still stands.

tmr567

June 22, 2012

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Title	Inspired by r/MensRights some of my friends and I created this Facebook page. It has goten us all in trouble at school but we all stuck to our believes and the page still stands.
Author	tmr567
Upvotes	26
Comments	23
Date	June 22, 2012 9:47 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/vgf0v/inspired_by_rmensrights_some_of_my_friends_and_i/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/inspired-by-rmensrights-some-of-my-friends-and-i.1019262 https://theredarchive.com/post/1019262

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[–]truthjusticeca 12 points13 points14 points 14 years ago (13 children) | Copy Link

[–]tmr567[S] 18 points19 points20 points 14 years ago (12 children) | Copy Link

[–]oneiorosgrip 5 points6 points7 points 14 years ago (10 children) | Copy Link

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[–]oneiorosgrip 4 points5 points6 points 14 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

If the school officials can't handle civilized discussion with a few parents, then the next step is to contact your local school board about the censorship. Go in armed with facts, to back up your assertion of rights.
From what I see:

The page is not in any way associated with the school.
The page does not discuss the school.
The page does not discuss fellow students by name
The speech and expression on the page is not threatening or derogatory.
There is nothing on the page that could be considered disruptive of school discipline.

I'm sure there are cases that never made the news and are not highlighted online, but the ones I could find seem to indicate that those are the criteria for allowing school censorship of student online activities, and even in cases where derogatory speech is found, if it's not disruptive, threatening, or significantly damaging it's not enough.

All of that said, you may be able to solve this by making the page a private, friends-only page with no identifying information on it, and only add people you know and trust, at least until the administrators of the page have graduated.

[–]tmr567[S] 5 points6 points7 points 14 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

[–]oneiorosgrip 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

One thing that might be helpful is to start researching cases online. I found several, just doing a google search for student free speech rights on the internet, netting me the information in the comment above about the criteria for allowing censorship. Both cases in which the decision favored the student, and cases in which it did not, will be useful. It'll help you figure out the judicial system's currently accepted criteria for sanction-enforced censorship of students by school authorities.

Being able to make a comparison between cases in which the court found in favor of the student, and cases in which the court found in favor of the school will help you demonstrate that your page is nowhere near what it would have to be for the court to side with the school against your speech rights, because the in the cases which were found in the students' favor, the determining factors were whether the communication occurred on school property, whether it was disruptive, threatening, or damaging, and whether it had a connection to the school. Even if you've got one crazy feminist on the board, being able to cite those cases and how your page fits in may make enough of an impression on the rest of the board that her opinion won't matter.

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