Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment (eBook)

Legal Challenges and Policy Issues

Todd A. DeMitchell, Richard Fossey (Autoren)

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2014
144 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-0205-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues explores the legal issues that arise when a school prohibits various types of student attire. Administrators must respect a student’s constitutional right to free speech, yet still maintain an environment that is conducive to learning, thus often creating conflicts.

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Students' early morning decisions about what to wear to school have led many school districts into legal issues and policy challenges. Confederate belt buckles, exposed bellies, sagging pants, political statements, and social commentary have all been banned from schools, and these bans have often resulted in litigation by students who claim their constitutional right to free speech has been violated. Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues explores the legal issues that arise when a school prohibits various types of student attire. Through an analysis of major Supreme and federal court cases, this volume examines conflicts that arise when administrators juggle a student's right to free speech with the need to maintain an environment conducive to learning.

Autor

Richard Fossey is Paul Burdin Endowed Professor of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana and formerly held the Mike Moses Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership at the University of North Texas. Prior to entering a career in higher education, he practiced law in Anchorage, Alaska, representing Alaska school districts. Todd A. DeMitchell is professor of education and justice studies at the University of New Hampshire. He is a former public school elementary teacher, principal, director of personnel and labor relations, and superintendent.

Inhalt

PrefaceChapter 1: What to Wear to School: The ControversyChapter 2: The Free Speech Rights of StudentsChapter 3: Dress Codes: Pants, Hats, and Gangs--The Clothes are the MessageChapter 4: Drugs, Politics and the Confederate Flag: Targeted Messages on Students’ ClothingChapter 5: Clothing Messages About Sex, Abortion and Sexual OrientationChapter 6: Policy Implications of Dress Codes: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities About the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-0205-6 / 1475802056
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-0205-4 / 9781475802054