2 Winona High students put free speech to the test -- didn't we just see a study where high school students were okay with having their right curtailed? And a big hue and cry because they didn't care about their rights? In that sense, this story is encouraging... but it'll be very interesting to see how it pans out!

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Norman Larson said…
Jim Walsh, the Star Tribune reporter who wrote this story, is a former student of mine. I hope that he and others in my Media Law class remember discussing Tinker v. Des Moines, a U.S. Supreme Court case that Jim referred to in his story.
April 24, 2005 at 5:04 PM
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