Student Free Speech Makes it to the Supreme Court
Ask students: Why is this case important to students everywhere? How does this case impact free speech in and out of schools?
May 10, 2021
Ask students: Why is this case important to students everywhere? How does this case impact free speech in and out of schools?
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Student Free Speech
Read the summary, watch the video and answer the discussion questions below. To read the transcript of the video above, click here.
Fourteen-year-old high school freshman Brandi Levy had just failed to make the varsity cheerleading squad and to get the softball team position she wanted when she angrily posted a Snapchat story with many uses of the F-word. As a result, her school officials kicked her off the junior varsity cheerleading team. Levy’s father ended up suing the school district, and a judge ordered Brandi back on the team.
Warm up questions: Have your students identify the 5Ws and an H:
Then have students share with the class or through a Learning Management System (LMS).
Focus questions:
Media Literacy: The video offers opinions from justices, lawyers and officials. Are there any voices that you think were missing? How could the story have been different with sources like Levy and her father?
Dig Deeper:
Written by Rebecca Shaid, EXTRA’s intern and Northwestern University student, and EXTRA’s Vic Pasquantonio
Republished with permission from PBS Newshour Extra.