“I, who happen to be a male, call a female colleague, to her face, a ‘stupid bitch’.May she, can she, ought she to take offence? If offence is to be taken, does thisdepend on the facts of the case? Had some of the facts been different (it was a malecolleague; it was a stranger; the phrase was actually ‘silly bugger’), would the answerto the question of whether offence was to be taken have been different?” Robin Barrow, Simon Fraser university
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Rep. Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines, – students in charge and responsible for fallouts
“If our next generation grows up without having an appreciation of their First Amendment rights, that has scary implications,” Upthegrove said.
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Pat Scales, a spokesperson for First Amendment issues-What is the essential conflict? Who is the main character? How does the author use language to define that character? Appealing to a student’s intellect will often diffuse a potential problem with a parent.
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Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier

In this decision, the Court gave school officials extremely broad authority to censor all forms of student expression if they show that the censorship has a “reasonable” educational justification.

“We are preparing citizens for a life in this democratic society where free expression and press freedom are values we hold dear. Young people are not going to grasp those values if we don’t teach them by example – as well as by lesson.” -Mark Goodman, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center,