Teens tend to test free expression limitations

As kids we were always told “If you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all.”
Later in life we learned about the Bill of Rights, specifically the first amendment.
Now that many of us teenagers are in high school we are getting into issues of free choice. But here’s the problem. No one knows if it really exists as it is an oxymoron within society.
Free choice is simple to explain. You have the right to decide to do what ever you want no matter what. This is true to a certain extent.
Free choice exists within the realms of that as long as we are not breaking a rule set by parents or the school, or the laws set by the state and federal government.
But that is where it becomes a mass full of contradictions. As teenagers, whether we realize it or not, we tend to test the limits of free choice in our actions and our words.
Many teenagers will often tell their parents “It’s my life, I can do what I want!” and where that is true there are always laws stopping us from doing things that according to the definition of free choice we should be able to decide for ourselves.
The laws of society force us to not always able to do what we want with out consequences.
But we have freedom of speech don’t we?
We have freedom to express ourselves however we want I thought. In schools we have the handbooks that tell us exactly for what we are accountable whether it is dress code, behavior, or grades.
Laws can be viewed online, or at the local courthouse. As for the laws of society though, they are usually not written out in black and white for you. You have to work to figure out what is right and wrong by using your moral compass.
What not only teenagers, but some adults as well, don’t realize is we have these rights as long as we are not harming anyone else. Once there becomes a negative effect on someone that is physically or emotionally harmful then those rights go away.
Free Choice is limited because of consequences for certain behaviors. So where Free Choice lives it also becomes non-existent in the game we call life.