You intentionally cut off my quote before the most important part in order to take it out of context. I said all those things are legal in this country if they fall within the student's protected first amendment rights. All states have laws making disrupting the educational process illegal; however, if the school claims that a student is "disrupting the educational" process, when that student is expressing his/her first amendment rights, the charge will not stand.
I am a criminal defense lawyer and I have had dozens of students that I represented acquitted of such charges because their "disruption" was nothing more than a trumped up way of trying to silence the student from validly expressing themselves.[/QUOTE]
Lol. No, you're not. A school disciplining a child is not a criminal matter, nor are the children "charged" of any crime to be acquitted with.[/QUOTE]
Actually, it is. Every state has a law making it the juvenile equivalent of a crime to disrupt the educational process. The version I am most familliar with, being a member of the Virginia Bar, is VA Code 18.2-415(C): C. Willfully or while intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, disrupts the operation of any school or any activity conducted or sponsored by any school, if the disruption (i) prevents or interferes with the orderly conduct of the operation or activity or (ii) has a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, the disruption is directed.
This is a criminal statute, the alleged violation of which lands the juvenile in court facing possible criminal sanctions.