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Issues with schools disciplining students outside of school grounds and unaffiliated with anything to do with the school have been an uprising the past few years. Recently a 12 year old girl was expelled from her school for making a remark about a hall monitor on Facebook. The school saw this as an act of bullying and punished her so issues kept happening with the girl the girl was suspended, the girl sued the school for violating her first amendment (freedom of speech), and her fourth amendment (unreasonable search and seizure). Therefor the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) states that the school was wrong and they have no right to punish off of school property. I stand for the girl; the school has no right to do what they did. In this case the girl was on Facebook and she posted that she “hated” a hall monitor who had been “mean” to her. The school found out about this post and the principal said that this act “constituted bullying”. The girl was simply given a detention. But when she went home the school was watching her Facebook again. Keep in mind she isn’t on school property or using any school connections. So she posted another comment, cursing that someone had told the school. The school which was watching her posts gave her an in school suspension and prohibited her from attending a class ski trip. This is where the ACLU stepped in stating that the school violated the girl’s first amendment of free speech. Secondly the school administrators had forced the girl to hand over her Facebook login credentials, after her and a boy were caught talking about sex. The ACLU states that there was no warrant to be looking into the girls Facebook. Also the mother of the girl did not say that they could search her Facebook. The ACLU said that this violates the girls’ fourth amendment right of privacy, and fourth amendment right of unreasonable search and seizure. On the other side the school states that “12 year olds aren’t even aloud to be a member of
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