I’ve been waiting for something like this and maybe this is the one.
School authoritarianism over off campus activities is out of control. It wouldn’t surprise me for it to get worse with the increase in on line learning.
Remember the bb gun in the background?
Academia is out of control. They are trying to deconstruct society and create new norms. They will deem what is acceptable.
Straight out of critical theory, the sun source of which is also academia.
I hope this case or one like it ends up in SCOTUS.
Employment is a contract between an employee and employer during paid time. Where does an employee volunteer to be regulated by their employer during unpaid time and off the employer’s premises? This isn’t about the schools checking social media activity of the kids while in school either.
Those students are free to say whatever they want. They aren’t free from the repercussions of their speech. Whether the school can punish them for that speech is what is at question.
There is a huge difference. Schools are government.
I don’t really subscribe to the “strings theory”. That is a prog construct to justify a lot of really bad policy.
Public and Private are about ownership.
High schools are publically owned. If Harvard (private) wants to have a policy like this, they are free to do so despite being heavily subsidized unofficially. As a condition of attendance.
