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    Jon Gosselin posts rare photo of 'missing' Gosselin kid

    Suzy Byrne
    Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
    May 14, 2018

    Collin Gosselin’s birthday weekend included a visit from his dad.

    On Sunday, Jon Gosselin shared a rare photo of his and Kate Gosselin‘s son who doesn’t live with the rest of the sextuplet siblings, instead residing full-time at a facility for children with special needs. They were celebrating Collin’s 14th birthday along with sibling Hannah.


    Collin looks like the Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad’s mini-me in the photo, which showed Jon with his arms resting on his son’s shoulders. They were beaming, clearly happy to be together. They were probably also excited to dig into the birthday spread, which included pizza and cake. Jon, who is now a DJ, noted he was “glad” to celebrate with Collin and Hannah.

    Jon previously posted two other photos of birthday fun with Hannah. When a fan asked about the rest of the sextuplets (Aaden, Alexis, Leah, and Joel), whom he shared a throwback of, he snapped that he didn’t post the photos to begin a conversation about the family’s custody arrangements. (His older daughters, Mady and Cara, have said they no longer speak to Jon, who finalized his bitter divorce with Kate in 2009. And in 2016, Jon told Yahoo Celebrity that he spends time with whichever kids want to come to his house.)


    After Collin dropped out of sight on Kate Plus 8, Kate, who the children live with primarily, went public with the news in August 2016 that he “has special needs” and a diagnosis that was “fairly fluid,” and that he had been enrolled in a full-time program away from home to help “him learn the skills he needs to be the best him he can be,” she told People magazine.

    She said she struggled a long time before deciding to enroll him in the program — and that it was a decision she made herself. “I’ve dealt with [it] on my own,” she said. “I’ve felt very alone in this.” She said that the entire family had been affected.

    In November of that year, Kate, who will soon be starring in a new TLC dating series, told People that she was “very happy” with the care he was getting and that she was “comforted by the fact that he is so clearly exactly where he needs to be.”

    Around that time, Jon, through a lawyer, told In Touch magazine that he didn’t know where his son Collin was living.  Also proving that custody arrangements remain strained between the exes is that Jon’s longtime girlfriend, Colleen Conrad, started a GoFundMe page last September to help with his “legal battle ahead” to secure “his rightful place in the lives of his family.” The fundraiser ended soon after, $27,000 shy of the goal.

    This marks Collin’s second birthday away from home. Last July on Kate Plus 8, footage of the sextuplets celebrating their 13th birthday aired, and Collin wasn’t there. He was mentioned in the show with Kate again saying she was “comforted” knowing that each of her kids “is receiving exactly what they need and that hasn’t changed.” Though she added it was “bittersweet. … You can’t do anything without realizing he’s missing.”

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    Girl banned from wearing MAGA hat claims school is violating her First Amendment rights

    Pipper: the Supreme Court laid out in four landmark decisions. Schools may restrict students’ speech if it: is likely to disrupt school is lewd promotes illegal drug use, or is part of the curriculum or communications sponsored by the school. The younger the students, the more leeway schools have to control their speech. Several lower courts have recognized another principle: The younger the students, the more leeway schools have to control their speech. (By the same token, colleges and universities have less latitude when they try to restrict older students’ speech.) Disruptive Speech The Supreme Court found that a school violated students’ First Amendment rights by suspending them for wearing black armbands as an antiwar protest (an example of what’s known as “symbolic speech”). As the court explained, school officials may not squelch the expression of unpopular opinions just to avoid “discomfort and unpleasantness.” Instead, they need to show that the banned speech would create a “substantial disruption” at school or would violate other students’ rights. (Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969).) Students, school administrators, and lower courts often disagree about what qualifies as a substantial disruption. The issue is even more complicated now, when so many controversies over disruptive speech are related to social media posts and other online speech. Courts consider several factors when deciding whether disruption from a student’s speech is too disruptive, including: Did it interfere with classwork or other school activities? Did it cause disorder on campus? Were other students so upset that they couldn’t concentrate or visited school counselors in droves? Did administrators and/or teachers have to take considerable time away from their regular duties in order to deal with the fallout? School officials don’t have to prove that a student’s speech already interfered with school before they take action. But in order to justify punishing the student, administrators do need to show that it was reasonable for them to predict that would happen. The fear of disruption has to be specific and significant. Vague or general worries aren’t enough. Along with the content of the speech, context and tone matter. Vulgar Speech In another case where a high school student gave a speech at school that was filled with explicit sexual metaphors, the Supreme Court found that the First Amendment didn’t prevent schools from disciplining children for offensively lewd and indecent speech. As the court explained, society’s interest in teaching “the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior” outweighed the student’s right to express his views in a way that was highly offensive to many of his classmates. (Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986).) Dangerous Speech After another high school student was suspended for refusing to take down a banner reading “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS” at a school event, he sued. The Supreme Court found that the principal hadn’t violated the boy’s free speech rights, because it was part of the school’s mission to protect students from messages that could be seen as promoting or celebrating illegal drug use (Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007)). Based on the reasoning in Morse, courts have given schools a fair amount of leeway in deciding whether students’ speech poses a danger to their classmates or teachers. School-Sponsored Speech and Student Journalism Teachers and other school authorities are allowed to censor or change what students write or say in school-sponsored publications (like an official school newspaper or yearbook), school plays, or other activities that involve the expression of ideas and are essentially part of the curriculum. The school must have a legitimate educational reason for the censorship. However, this broad editorial control doesn't apply if school authorities have, "by policy or by practice," allowed a school paper or online publication to become what courts call a public forum—meaning that it's an open platform for students to express themselves freely and make key decisions about content without prior approval from teachers or administrators. (Hazelwood School Dist. v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988).) Most courts agree that this rule applies only to K-12 schools. Schools generally have less control over "underground" student journalism, whether online or in print. Also, a few states have laws that give student journalists greater free-speech protections than they have under the federal Hazelwood standard.

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