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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When Whitman students made racist postings on social media.. but from their home, and on a private social media account, they got in trouble at school and had it reported to the police:

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/04/two-whitman-hs-students-wore-blackface-school-said/

I think some are calling for the school to punish the kids involved in these fights. That would be consistent based on the Whitman incident. But is it happening?

In the Whitman case, I'm not sure students should be punished for their speech that occurs out of school on their own time. That's a slippery slope. But speech is not illegal (I assume the police did nothing since no crime was committed). The difference in the BCC/WJ case is a crime was indeed committed, based on the video.[/quote]

Based on my reading from the principal communications, I think the school is looking to take disciplinary action for this out-of-school conduct.  But they should proceed carefully, because there is a parallel criminal investigation that should take precedence, because there are more rules about criminal investigations.  You don't want a violent offender walking away because the school official interrogated them and got some confession without a Miranda warning or the school person messes up the chain of custody on evidence or something like that.  [/quote]

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