“Do I believe the school should get involved…deny student chance to walk at graduation…If it violates the HS code of conduct YES”
If this is a public high school , then no. I believe that would be a First Amendment violation. A code of conduct does not trump (pardon the expression) the Constitution. It’s AMAZING how many people don’t understand that.
It is true that High Schoolers rights are a little less than college students but I believe that the school would have an almost impossible job of meeting the standard to infringe on the speech at issue here. See J.C. v. Beverly Hills Unified School District (2009) — ( Hs can’t impose consequences for mean comments made unless it creates a “substantial disruption of school.”) This one comment under the circumstances described would not rise to that level