1st Amendment
A principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction
What is, freedom of speech?
Someone writes on their own Facebook profile that they are going to harm someone.
What is, not protected speech?
True or False: The administration can censor anything written by a student for school-related media.
What is, false!
True or False: Bullying falls under the protection of Freedom of Speech.
FALSE!
Delaware and many other states have anti-bullying laws as well!
principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely
What is, Freedom of Press
A student wears a Tshirt that includes a swear word on it to school
What is, not protected? Falls under obscenity and is covered in school code of conduct.
If a student is unsure as to whether they are being censored legally, they can call this company for free legal advice.
What is the Student Press Law Center?
These are all examples of__________________.
Libel
Invasion of Privacy
Copyright Infringement
“Fighting Words”
Speech that creates a clear and present danger
Speech that presents a clear and immediate threat to national security
Obscenity*
Unprotected speech
Individual rights or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their collective or shared ideas.
What is, Freedom of peaceable assembly?
A student Tweets criticisms of their school and their experience there.
What is protected speech?
BONUS: What would make this situation NOT protected speech?
Speech that invades the rights of others (unprotected speech)
Speech that creates a material and substantial disruption of normal school activities
What are examples of unprotected student speech?
Which Supreme Court Case reduced the level of First Amendment protection for school-sponsored media at public schools?
Hazelwood!
BONUS: What did several states do to combat this?
A principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
What is, Freedom of Religion?
A student writes an article for the school paper about how a staff member should be fired because they heard the staff member plays favorites.
What is unprotected speech?
The case of a student who wore an armband to protest the Vietnam War went to the Supreme Court.
What is, Tinker vs Des Moines Independent School District?
BONUS: What was the outcome?
Protected or Unprotected?: A student writes an article for their journalism class criticizing the district's decision to start school at 7:15 am. The article included many misspellings and did not include any facts to back up claims that it was a poor decision. The administration tells them to remove the article from the school paper.
Unprotected! The administration can remove an article if it is deemed "unreasonable". This includes "Poorly written, poor grammar, bias, etc"
-Hazelwood
The right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
What is,Freedom to petition the government?
A student writes an article for the school paper that criticizes the new bell schedule and questions its success.
What is, protected speech?
The case of a school editor and reporters who were censored after writing articles in their school paper about teen pregnancy and divorce went to the Supreme Court.
What is Hazelwood vs Kulheimer?
BONUS: What was the outcome?
Protected! Although it looks bad for the school/district, the students researched everything and completed a well-written and researched article. This article led to the resignation of the principal.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/us/student-newspaper-principal-fired-booster-redux-trnd/index.html