By Debra Cassens Weiss - July 11, 2022

A federal appeals court has ruled a Colorado high-school student can
sue over his one-year expulsion for an off-campus, offensive Snapchat
post.

The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday
for the student, "C.G.," in a suit brought on his behalf against the
Cherry Creek School District and its officials.

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***** Moderator's Note *****

There used to be a TV show that had a slogan which said "The Truth Is
Out There," and so it is, except it's not a stage play that the truth
is out in. School administrators and others in positions of authority
are being confronted more and more often with the limits of their
authority, at the same time that they are being confronted with the
limits of their education and accomplishments, and the truth is that
they're unable to reconcile the fact with their new places in the
online world: that of functionaries fighting a rear-guard action
against an industrial machine interested only in grooming the next
generation of soldiers and consumers.

Some public servants don't get it: the fact is that the respect they
used to arrogate - from generations of students whom were being raised
in a world where children really were expected to be seen and not
heard - has been diverted to magical beings living inside tiny
battery-powered containers. The electronic heroes of today, like the
analog TV stars of my youth, never make mistakes, always know what has
to be done, and never stop to ask for help or advice.

There is, of course, a critical difference between the well-groomed
heroes of the 50's and those of today: the old guard of Hollywood
regulars knew that their job was to set an example of a good soldier
who did what was "right," for whatever flavor of righteousness was
fashionable that season. Modern electronic Daemons are created and
pushed into unsuspecting minds with no other purpose than to sell
soap, and for the life of me I can't decide which Potemkin village
deserves to be razed more quickly.

The children born in the Internet age are used to having their lives
play out in public places, while not yet having the hard-won
experience that will (one hopes) eventually cause them to moderate
what they put into public view.

The ruler-slapping despots whom used to have nearly absolute power
over students are now being confronted with realities both
professional and personal: truths which some of them cannot handle.

Bill Horne
Moderator

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