A teenage girl who used bad language in an Internet blog regarding the school officials was wrongly punished by school according to her lawyer.

However a lawyer for the Burlington, Conn., school told on Tuesday to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that school should be permitted to act in this way to if comments like these are made on the Web.

Avery Doninger, 17, said that her free speech rights were violated by officials at Lewis S. Mills High School when she was banned from accomplishing her duties in the student council because of her comments made on the Internet.

She wrote in her Internet journal that the school's annual Jamfest, similar to a battle of the bands contest, was annulled by the officials. The event was rescheduled.

She wrote on the Internet page:  “‘Jamfest’ is canceled due to douchebags in central office,” the Associated Press reports.

When the school officials saw the blog entry, they didn’t let Doninger to run for re-election as class secretary. Even so, she won through write-in votes, but was not permitted to serve.

The school was supported by a lower federal court.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz said that it was possible for her to be punished for writing the blog because it addressed school issues and it could be read by other students.

On Tuesday Doninger’s lawyer told the appeals court that what students write about over the Internet should not allow schools control off-campus speech.

He said: "It's just a bigger soapbox."

On the other hand, Thomas R. Gerarde, an attorney for school officials, said that the Internet changed communication among students.