Oh goodness. You have the right of speech, but also the ability to convey said speech in a way that suits your environment and situation. High school students are still minors and it is the schools job to enforce whatever rules are in place. I'm not saying the rule is absolute and things don't need to be re-evaluated, but this is just a no brainer. It's even worse based off his location. You should just know better.

USA freedom of speech is why this kid will win some major victory and be allowed back to his school.

Having said freedoms doesn't mean people/orgs won't attempt to remove them. All it means is you have legal recourse to demand retribution.

As for the rule of being profain at school, yeah those rules should exist, just as they exist in the workplace and normal society. People should be smart enough to be respectful to others.

If I were this kids parent I'd be getting a lawyer to make sure my kid goes back to his rightful school to finish as well as covering all court costs and then punishing him myself for being a total fucking idiot on twitter and embarrasing my family name. fuck.

I hope the other students plan to show their displeasure at this. If I was at that school I would get as many students as would be willing to participate to all go on twitter on the same day, using school equipment, and tweet "Fuck is no fucking reason to be fucking expelled.".

What will the school do? Expel them all?

Yes, but you are an adult. However, there would be reprecussion if your audience was children and then you repeated what he tweeted.

You're also still very young at 21 an likely not in profesional environments much... which a school is.

If you are in a meeting with other profesionals and you say fuck somewhere in your dialogue, you will be looked down on and likely reprimanded to have a more profesional demeanor.

This really is something somepeople just 'get' as they mature. Certain words in any culture are simply not acceptable in everyday speech.

I swear and use crude jokes all the time around friends and in this site. I NEVER do that on FB, twitter or other more open social gatherings, and especially not at any school or workplace.

These kids probably have some type of cell phone. He could have just used it to tweet instead of the school's computer. But that is just what I would have done.

So anything any kid says on the internet on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, VGchartz, etc. should be punishable in school?

I already mentioned that I was thinking of another news story :p For this one, I think the action was totally unreasonable

I'd be out of schools to transfer to inside of a week :/

This is indeed insanity!

I feel a private school has every right to make those kinds of decisions and requirements.

But public school? Hell no.