High schoolers played lawyers Thursday as their government classroom was staged as a moot court and they debated whether a student’s controversial Facebook post was protected by the First Amendment.
The lesson — tailored for a high school audience and taught by University of Colorado law students — honored Constitution Day, commemorating the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the U.S. Constitution. This year, Constitution Day is being observed today.
By law, any school that accepts federal funding must have some sort of activity to celebrate Constitution Day. Former U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat known to always carry a pocket-sized Constitution, tucked the mandate into a federal spending bill approved by Congress in 2005.
For the Longmont High School Constitution Day exercise, students reviewed real case law and considered whether the courts protect student speech or the right of the school to limit speech.
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