14 DAY TRIAL // A senior from the Kentridge High School was suspended for 40 days after the school's officials discovered that he was involved in a clips showing class disruption. The video was actually created to make fun of a teacher after the students managed to record a clip during a normal class. Gregory Requa was suspended for 40 days but he decided to appeal the decision at a US court. Jeannette Cohen, the lawyer of the student, sustained that the authorities violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment that guarantees the freedom of speech.
"Requa's lawyer, Jeannette Cohen, said the teen didn't produce the video -- taken in an English classroom at Kentridge. But even if he did, his suspension is a violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, she argued in court. Kent School District lawyer Charles Lind says the suspension had nothing to do with online criticism of the teacher. Rather, it was punishment for the disruption created by the students secreting a video camera into Joyce Mong's class and dancing in a mocking, disrespectful manner while her back was turned," the same source reported.
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