Law and Ethics Notes

First amendment rights
-Speech
-Religion
-Assembly
-Press
-Petition

Students in public schools dont have the same first amendment rights as outside of schools.

1969-THE TINKER STANDARD!
- students wore black armbands to protest the war and got expelled-went to the supreme court-court sided with students.
-Students speech CANNNOT be censored as long as it does not "materially disrupt class work or involve substantial disorde or invasion of the rights of others."

1986-THE FRASER STANDARD!
-Bethel School District vs. Fraser
-Inapporopriate speech for class president(school suspends student goes to supreme court)-sided with school and decided that:
-Because school officials have an "interest in teaching students the boundaries of spcially appropraite behavior" they can censor students speech that is vulgar or indecent even if it does not cuse a "material or substantial disruption"


1988-THE HAZELWOOD STANDARD!
-High school newspaper aarticle about teen pregnancy and divorce.
-Supreme court ruled:
"Censorpship of school-sponsored student expression is permissible when school offials can show that it if "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns."
-schools can censor student newspapers if the students do something against what the schools teach-teen pregnancy, drinking, drugs, piercings.

2002-THE FREDERICK STANDARD!
-Olympic torch travels through town
-Principal cancels school so that students can go see the olympic tourch-school feild trip- like going to a state sports game or college fair
-Senior Frederick holds up a sign that says "Bong hits for Jesus"
-Students are suspended for 10 days
-School wins Trial

-No legal justification for censoring a students expression in the privacy of his home!!

LIBEL
-a defamatory statement(hurting someones character)
-PUBLISHED to at least one other person
-has to be a False statement!(opinions are not libel)

SLANDER
-spoken statement
--same as libel but spoken.