Discuss the legal rights of students as they relate to personal privacy, free speech, and school discipline
What will be an ideal response?
• In 1984, in New Jersey v. T.L.O., the Supreme Court helped clarify a vexing problem: whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to school officials as well as to police officers.
• The most important U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning a student's right to passive speech was in 1969 in the case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. According to the Court, to justify prohibiting an expression of opinion, the school must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a desire to avoid the unpleasantness that accompanies the expression of an unpopular view. Unless it can be shown that the forbidden conduct will interfere with the discipline required to operate the school, the prohibition cannot be sustained.
• The concept of free speech articulated in Tinker was used again in 1986 in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser. This case upheld a school system's right to discipline a student who uses obscene or profane language and gestures.
• In the 1977 case Ingraham v. Wright, the Court held that neither the Eighth nor the Fourteenth Amendment was violated by a teacher's use of corporal punishment to discipline students.
• With regard to suspension and expulsion, in 1976, in the case of Goss v. Lopez, the Supreme Court ruled that any time a student is to be suspended for up to 10 days, he or she is entitled to a hearing.
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