Khang An Nguyen
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988) Essay Stuyvesant’s very own biweekly newspaper, the Spectator, has been publishing a variety of articles since 1915. But is the content of the Spectator protected under the First Amendment? What if a student publishes an article that violates the privacy of certain students? While the First Amendment grants us freedom of speech and of the press, it is different for students in school. The 1988 case Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier found that schools had the right to censor student press if it interferes with the school’s education. Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier case was brought up when students in a Journalism II class at Hazelwood East High School published a final version of their school newspaper containing two articles
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Kuhlmeier is still very prominent in modern situations. Stuyvesant High School itself is home to a fair amount of press papers, with the major paper being the Stuyvesant Spectator. The Spectator itself had encountered a shutdown in 1998, where a student produced a spoof of the Spectator called "The Defectator," which poked fun at faculty members. This led to the Spectator being shut down due to faculty complaining about being bashed to the principal at the time, Mrs. Jinx Perullo. Ultimately, the Spector resumed production, but was given a written set of guidelines with the help of Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Personally, I disagree with why the paper was shut down over a few mean comments directed to those teachers (in an April Fools article nonetheless), but because “The Defectator” gave a distraction from learning (increased tension between students and teachers), Principal Perullo was allowed to act under in loco parentis and limit the freedom of press of the students. If students today write an article that interferes with Stuyvesant’s learning mission, then our current principal, Principal Contreras, has the given right to limit our freedom of press as
Fraser because both involve students’ First Amendment Rights. However, in Bethel School District v. Fraser, the Supreme Court ruled that Fraser’s school suspension was appropriate and nondiscriminatory because while the First Amendment guarantees free speech, Fraser imprudently and vulgarly spoke at a school assembly (Walsh, 2018). The Supreme Court determined, the role of schools is to teach socially appropriate behavior and speech. It is within the school’s sole discretion whether and how to punish such speech (Decker, 2014). This decision contradicted the political speech, which the Court had protected in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District in 1969.
As usual, the school newspaper, The Spectrum, was given to Robert Reynolds
Section 2(b) guarantees freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including the freedom of the press and other media of
The Tinker V. Des Moines had a huge impact on history and school districts. Des Moines was community school district. The Tinker’s were a family that attended it. There were two children from the Tinker family that attended Des Moines and they are John F. Tinker and his sister Mary B. Tinker. They were suspended for protesting.
Jordan Whitmore History 121 December 1, 2015 Carl Jensen’s Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century Carl Jensen was an author, newspaper reporter, advertising executive, and professor at Sonoma State University. He also founded Project Censored in 1976, a research project on news media censorship, and acted as the director of the program which has remained an important part of the University’s journalistic curriculum since its inception. The techniques used by Jensen to teach journalism have been accepted and used by colleges throughout the country based upon their exceptional quality and standards. Jensen was a strong advocate of the idea of freedom of speech and expression espoused in the First Amendment of the U.S.
The issue in this case was whether school-sponsored nondenominational prayer in public schools violates the Establishment clause of the first amendment (Facts and Case Summary - Engel v. Vitale, n.d.). This case dealt with a New York state law that had required public schools to open each day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a nondenominational prayer in which the students recognized their dependence upon God (Facts and Case Summary - Engel v. Vitale, n.d.). This law had also allowed students to absent themselves from this activity if they found that it was objectionable. There was a parent that sued the school on behalf of their child. Their argument was that the law violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as made applicable
Censorship sciences minorities. In the article entitled “Reading, Writing and Censorship: When Good Books Can Get Schools in Trouble”. Barbara Miner remarks “The Bill of Rights protects not only freedom of speech, but the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances…”. When a minority
To the editor, I am writing in response to a letter to the editor that was printed in the Hardwick Gazette on September 16, 2015. The title of this letter was The People’s Meeting, written by Michael Colby. In this letter Colby can be heard, once again, harassing and slandering the chairman of the Walden school board, Ray Lewis. It seems as though Colby is attempting to sway the Walden community to question Mr. Lewis’s character. In considering the unscrupulous characteristics and motives that Colby has consistently demonstrated, there need be no question about the root of his distrust for others.
I can’t fully express anything that I want and its due to the security and general welfare of other fellow peers. A lot of class work has to be censored and cant be used for the sole purpose of education. We too, students, are persons under the American Constitution . So so this extent, i can say that our government has altered the first amendment.
Night written by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Elie’s personal experience during the Holocaust. Yes, this book is very hard to read and has violent and upsetting content, but it is the truth about the Holocaust. Banning books is wrong and limits students to things that adults find “appropriate” for students. Some students can handle for mature material, so limiting them to certain books is unjust. Banning books in school libraries takes away academic freedom, shelters students from the outside world, and does not let students form an educated opinion.
Censorship of The First Amendment This paper will discuss how censorship denies citizens of the United States our full rights as delineated in the First Amendment. It will outline how and why the first amendment was created and included in the Constitution of the United States of America. This paper will also define censorship, discuss a select few legal cases surrounding freedom of speech and censorship as well as provide national and local examples of censorship.
On June 25, 1962, a Supreme Court case, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, was decided. The lawsuit was brought to the United States Supreme Court by parents (of students who attended schools in the Herricks School District) who complained that a nondenominational prayer instituted by the New York Board of Regents in their district was unconstitutional. The parents argued that the prayer, although optional, violated their First Amendment Rights. When the 6-1 (two justices did not vote) decision was made, it was ruled that voluntary prayer in public schools violates the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. One concurring opinion was given, and the single judge that did not vote the same as the rest provided
The school said they expelled the narrator because it would hurt the honor of the school, but this might not the entire truth. If the school had let this event fly it would have damaged the reputation of the school, while also hurting the narrator too. The future of the narrator would have been damaged because he might not have become a writer. When the narrator left the school, the school’s reputation didn’t fall, and the narrator was in a better position than he would have been. This means that it’s a win-win scenario for the narrator and the school.
People have the tendency to take the First Amendment for granted, but some tend to use it to their favor. Stanley Fish presents his main argument about how people misuse this amendment for all their conflicts involving from racial issues to current political affairs in his article, Free-Speech Follies. His article involves those who misinterpret the First Amendment as their own works or constantly use it as an excuse to express their attitudes and desires about a certain subject matter. He expresses his personal opinions against those who consistently use the First Amendment as a weapon to defend themselves from harm of criticism.
In Derek Bok’s, Protecting Freedom of Expression On The Campus, he brings light to the issue of censorship in universities. He states that students at Harvard University got offended after a few students displayed the confederate flag. There have been many cases in which people have tried to censor offensive material however; the Supreme Court preferred to conserve the freedom of expression. He believes that if censorship starts to take place, it will be difficult to know when to cross the line. In addition, it will not fix the initial problem since the offenders will continue to abuse others using different means.