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In a just society, someone who give any shit about the world around them should be rewarded and praised as an academic setting is supposed to produce open-minded and courageous thinkers.
Bring evidence and any documentation in your defense such as text messages, emails, and etc.
Know your rights regarding freedom of speech, protesting, and walkouts at school.
If your school administrators give you shit, you have every right to seek higher channels.
Some Law Information:
I am not a lawyer, but this should help, I took some media law classes.
Tinker v. Des Moines:
The Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, held that schools can only restrict student speech if it would "materially and substantially disrupt" the operation of the school or interfere with the rights of others. This standard, known as the "substantial disruption test" or "Tinker test," remains the primary legal benchmark for evaluating student speech cases.
School are a Nonpublic forum:
In a nonpublic forum, authority figures may restrict contents of speech, as long as the restriction is reasonable and the restriction does not discriminate based on the speakers’ viewpoints.
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/public-forum-doctrine/
https://canons.sog.unc.edu/blog/2022/11/17/responding-to-first-amendment-audits-examples-of-forum-determinations/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_(legal)
Viewpoint Discrimination:
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/viewpoint-discrimination/
Time, Place, and Manner Regulations:
This reflects regulations on speech depending on when, where, and how the speech was conducted. This is content-neutral (also implied to be viewpoint-neutral), this means that these regulations can not be used just because someone disagrees with the speech being conducted.
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/
Other Information:
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/can-schools-discipline-students-protesting
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/students-rights-speech-walkouts-and-other-protests
https://www.nyclu.org/resources/know-your-rights/your-rights-student-protester