So, here's the deal with yearbooks. Students have no right to freedom of expression in a high school yearbook. Neither do teachers. The editorial privilege of the yearbook owner (i.e. the school) is the ultimate determinant in this case. If the school says "no political slogans or endorsements," then that is their discretion and not subject to criminal or civil liability. While the optics of censorship are not great, the school and the yearbook staff are well within their authority to do so. Take, for example, a student who chooses to wear a t-shirt with a Planned Parenthood support slogan. The school would be perfectly within their right to censor that logo from the yearbook (and be lauded by a significant number of the community for doing so).philip964 wrote:http://www.app.com/story/news/education ... 389314001/
Student wore a Trump campaign tee shirt on picture day and the yearbook censored the Trump portion of the photo.
The teacher has been suspended. I'm somewhat surprised as I thought the yearbook people could do what they wanted as its their book.
In short, neither the parents nor the student has standing to bring suit against the school, the yearbook, or the teacher. The teacher, unless he/she violated district policiy, does have legal grounds to challenge the suspension.