OAK PARK, Calif. – Does a school have the right to reach into a family’s home and discipline a student for weekend misbehavior? At least one mother doesn’t think so.

April 20, 2014 — a Sunday — 16-year-old Jared Pollard posted several “jokes” related to Adolf Hitler on Twitter. The day was the tyrant’s birthday.

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Pollard’s mother, Kristi, didn’t find them funny.

“When you make a mistake, you get corrected,” Pollard tells CBS 2, “but I’m the one who corrects it. Especially if it happens in my home on a Sunday night.”

She adds, “I don’t like those kinds of jokes. But I grew up in the generation where people said,  ‘I might not agree with that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ This is America.”

Weeks later, her son’s school, Oak Park High School, waded in and handed down a four-day suspension to Pollard for the tweets after a parent sent out “hundreds” of emails regarding the incident.

Pollard and the parents of another student suspended have filed a lawsuit against Oak Park Unified School District and the principal of the high school.

The mother says the public outcry “from half information was brutal and cruel.”

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The school district refused to talk about the lawsuit or the situation, citing the students’ “privacy.”

“I think what they did was wrong, and they deserved the consequences,” according to Dean Kenig, a student at the school. “Me, myself, I’m Jewish, so I found it very offensive.”

But the mother insists the job of disciplining her child is her responsibility — not the school’s. Especially when it comes to things that happen during the weekend that are not school-related.

“And I want my children not to be scared at school,” Pollard tells the news station. “I want them to be learning at school. I brought this suit because it’s illegal to do that to children. And if I don’t protect them, who will? I love them.”

CBS 2 didn’t indicate on what grounds the suit is being brought, but presumably it is based on the student’s First Amendment rights.