Tinker, Fraser, and Hazelwood [electronic resource] : Which Educational Policies Are Truly "Educational"? / Loucas Petronicolos.
Without question, Supreme Court decisions regarding public school student rights have greatly affected school policies. This paper reviews three decisions of the United States Supreme Court that currently classify the public school student's free-speech and expression rights. The cases include...
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| Summary: | Without question, Supreme Court decisions regarding public school student rights have greatly affected school policies. This paper reviews three decisions of the United States Supreme Court that currently classify the public school student's free-speech and expression rights. The cases include "Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District" (1969), "Bethel School District v. Fraser" (1986), and "Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier" (1988). The paper examines the ideas underlying the educational policies illustrated by the three decisions and evaluates whether these policies are compatible with the aims of public education. It is argued that each of the three decisions enunciate fundamentally different notions about the ends and means of public education, which may be a source of controversy over policy decisions at the school level. In formulating school policy, the scope of inquiry needs to include an appraisal of the appropriate roles for students and educators. These roles must be educationally sound and consistent with the spirit of the constitutional methods that schools should be using to educate. (Contains 21 references.) (LMI) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED398646. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, April 8-12, 1996). |
| Physical Description: | 16 p. |