E.D., a high school student, started a pro-life student club. The school approved the club and allowed it to recruit students, but administrators rejected proposed flyers that included political slogans and images. School officials said student-club wall postings were limited to basic information such as the club name, meeting time, date, and location.

After E.D. and her mother continued pressing another administrator to approve the flyers, the principal temporarily suspended the club’s recognition, explaining that student interest clubs had to remain student-led. The club was allowed to reapply and was later reinstated.

The Seventh Circuit ruled for the school district. It treated the school-wall flyers as school-sponsored speech and applied the Hazelwood standard rather than Tinker. The court found the restriction on political content reasonably related to legitimate educational concerns and concluded that the temporary suspension was based on neutral club-management rules rather than hostility to E.D.’s anti-abortion viewpoint.

E.D. shows that students can form advocacy clubs and express political views, but schools may have more control over speech that uses school-controlled channels, such as officially approved wall postings. Neutral rules still must be applied without viewpoint discrimination.