High school student suspended for critical Facebook posting

A Mississippi high school senior is suing his school administration in federal court for suspending him for a rap song he wrote off campus in his free time and posted on Facebook.

The song criticized two coaches he observed who allegedly flirted with female students and contacted intimate  body parts of the students. The senior was sentenced to seven days of suspension and five weeks of alternate school. -db

From Courthouse News Service, February 28, 2011, by Tracey Dalzell Walsh.

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