Good afternoon, your honor. I am here today on behalf of plaintiff, Chris Jackson, a student who has(had)an amazing future ahead of her, and whose life will forever be changed because of a principal who abused their power.Ms. Jackson is a very smart and outspoken young women who received a perfect ACT score, is ranked third in her class, is involved in mock trial, speech, was student council president. She is a very hard worker and saw something wrong in her school by the people who are supposed to be adults, and sought to take action. She was unfairly punished by a principal, [put insult of powers here] for speaking out and having harmless fun with her friends. The reasons that Dr. Powers suspended Ms. Jackson were[put reasons here] and all of those were an abuse of her …show more content…
Jackson made was said to be a disruption, but you will here from Ricky Silvers who clearly expresses his observations of school following the post and that there was no significant disruption in classrooms. From the defense you will hear from Pat Wright, a close friend and colleague of defendant Morrie Powers, stating that his classroom was “disrupted” by the Me-Video. However we bear the burden to prove this was one classroom of the many at JMHS. One of the reasons Dr. Powers punished Ms. Jackson was because the MsA school district can discipline a student for off-campus misconduct but only if the student’s misconduct has a direct and immediate effect on either school discipline or the general safety and welfare of the students. Were there students harmed, threatened or put at risk because of this video? No, and Mr. Bourne can confirm that.The Defense bears the burden to prove that the off-campus production of this free speech video satisfies this prong. However, their evidence will not be conclusive. Even if your, honor, you find that this speech occurred on school grounds, the district does not have the authority to impose such discipline to the extent that it