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Originally Posted by tracilicious
I think that makes the free speech issue here moot because free speech doesn't exist on school property.
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Yes it does, for the most part. The Supreme Court has ruled that public school administrators must show a substantial disruption to school operations prior to making content-based restrictions. They are given broader leeway in creating general policies but they can very rarely prohibit specific speech.
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Originally Posted by tracilicious
Students can't distribute written materials without school approval,
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The SC has addressed this specific issue in
Papish and ruled exactly that students could distribute written materials without approval so long as the method distribution did not disrupt school operations (for example they could stand in the hallway between classes handing it out but they couldn't barge into classrooms during session to do so).
But again this is a difference I don't necessarily have a problem with (that is the school having administrative punishments for certain speech) vs. the criminal justice system punishing certain speech.