Thought this was interesting. I’m having deja vu.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/education/cst-nws-payton14.html
Chicago Sun Times
March 14, 2004
BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Staff Reporter
Derogatory comments about gay weddings and blacks posted on a Web log by a junior at Walter Payton College Prep have sparked tensions among students — and provided a lesson about the First Amendment.
In a rare move, the Chicago Public Schools’ top lawyers converged on the Gold Coast magnet school Friday to explain that the 16-year-old girl was not being disciplined because she has a right to free speech. The girl has since shut down her Web log.
The girl’s comments had ranged from deriding gay marriage to belittling the impact of slavery. Despite two schoolwide assemblies at which officials addressed the issue last week, some students and parents remained angry.
“I think it’s horrible. I was outraged,” said parent Sharon Dancy. “The student made some very negative comments about black people that I won’t even repeat, and I think people like her represent the epitome of our societal problems.”
Dancy’s daughter Niema, a senior, said she and other students brought the blog to the school’s attention Wednesday, and they resented a gaggle of CPS lawyers coming to tell them the First Amendment protects the girl from being disciplined. “A lot of us felt the discrimination was disgraceful,” she said.
School officials said the most they could do was meet with the girl and discuss sensitivity and tolerance issues. “We found out that she did write these inflammatory comments. We discussed with her the contents and how hurtful they were. On Thursday, we met with her parents,” Payton Principal Gail Ward said.
School officials declined to release the exact nature of the comments posted by the girl and others on the blog.
“A lot of this stuff had to do with gay marriage. She was against gay marriage, and there were comments about slavery that certainly could be offensive,” said CPS general counsel Ruth Moscovitch, who was at the school Friday.
Moscovitch and two other lawyers were called to the school after students were still questioning why the girl faced no discipline for her comments. The lawyers explained. “The comments weren’t made in school. They may be opinions we don’t like, but they’re opinions,” Moscovitch said. “The questions had to do with understanding the First Amendment and how our society protects free expression.”

They actually had 2 schoolwide assemblies about this girl’s homepage. Wow!