Attorneys for the Tennessee high school student called the principal"thin-skinned" and noted that the social media posts didn't disrupt school.A 17-year-old Tennessee high school student is suing his school district and administrators after he was suspended for creating and posting satirical memes directed at his principal on social media.
According to the federal lawsuit filed on July 19, the unnamed student, who is set to begin his senior year at Tullahoma High School, accuses the Tullahoma City School district, now-former Principal Jason Quick and Vice Principal Derrick Crutchfield of violating his First Amendment right to free speech after he was suspended for three days for posting the memes on Instagram.
“This case is about a thin-skinned high school principal defying the First Amendment and suspending a student for lampooning the principal on the student’s Instagram page even though the posts caused no disruption at school,” attorneys for the student said in their complaint.The student posted three memes that featured Quick on his personal Instagram account in 2022, while off campus and over summer vacation, according to the lawsuit.
“The student intended the images to be tongue-in-cheek commentary, gently ribbing a school administrator he perceived as humorless,” Conor Fitzpatrick, the lead attorney representing the student, said in a
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