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Bethel School District vs. Fraser (1986) “His speech was filled with sexual references and innuendos, but it contained no obscenities” . The Court found that it was appropriate for the school to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive language. The good news is that Fraser's candidate was overwhelmingly elected. The bad news was that Fraser was suspended from the school for three days and removed from the list of students who were eligible to make graduation remarks. (Fraser was second in his…

The School District This is the first school year of the merger between the Memphis City and the Shelby County school districts. Memphis City’s 212 urban schools prior to the merger were 83% African American and 7% White. The 52 Shelby County suburban schools were 50% White and 37% African American. The merger created the new Shelby County School District a combination of urban and suburban students. Prior to the merger Memphis districts 2012 dropout rate reported above 10% for the urban…

Finlayson, Mary, "The Impact of Teacher Absenteeism on Student Performance: The Case of the Cobb County School District" (2009). Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects. 4. In this article, Finlayson examines the impact that teacher absenteeism has on the Cobb County School district. Moreover, the article examined several factors that were affected by teacher absenteeism. These factors include the financial impact that this is having on the district’s finances. More importantly, it examines…

A. Vernonia School District v. Acton (1994)- Random Drug Testing of High School Athletes. B. Facts of the case 1.The official investigation led to the discovery that high school athletes in the vernonia high school district participated in illicit drug use. School official were concerned that drug use increases the risk of sports related injury.Constantly, Vernonia school district of oregon adopted the student athletes drug policy which authorizes random urinalysis drug testing of its student…

1. My school is a high school in a small town in rural northwest Tennessee. It serves approximately 800 students in grades 9-12, with roughly 200 students per grade. Approximately half of these students are white, with African-Americans making up approximately thirty-five percent of the student population, Latinos making up approximately ten percent of the student population, and Asian, Pacific Islander, and other students making up the remaining five percent of the student population. The…

Parents and children have a lot of details to keep track of during back-to-school time: School clothes, textbooks and supplies, classroom schedules, immunizations and sports physicals. Teachers have their own backto school paperwork to tackle. This week, all public schoolteachers in Indiana are receiving an important legal notice from my office that they should read and that parents and schoolchildren also should be aware of. The legal notice reminds teachers of Indiana’s Teacher Protection…

Island Trees School District v. Pico In March of 1982, the Supreme Court case of Island Trees School District v. Pico, five students, including the high school senior Steven Pico, fought in Washington D.C. for their first amendment right. The outcome of this case would forever change school districts rules and regulations across the nation. During the school year of 1975-1976, the Island Trees School District No.26 in New York banned the sum 11 novels from its school’s district junior high…

1 Stafford Unified School District v. Redding Stafford Unified School District v. Redding (2009) Pedro Maldonado Texas A&M San Antonio 2 Stafford Unified School District v. Redding Facts of the Case In October 2003 a male student and his mother met with administration claiming that he received pills from a student and that they made him sick . He showed the principal a white pill that turned out to be Ibuprofen and claimed several students planned to take them. He stated that the pills…

In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969) the Supreme Court Stated that, “In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State chooses to communicate. They may not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially approved” (Alexander, 2012). This declaration sets the tone for the interactions of schools not as a place to proselytize only one viewpoint or to limit the access of…

parents can become challenging at times. It can be difficult to meet the demands from the parents as well as the administrators. She stated that she would like to incorporate more counseling into her role. However, I realized that there will be a district for me where I can incorporate counseling into my role because this is a role I would like to follow in the near future. When I asked the LSSP how she decided to become an LSSP, it seemed she was very unaware of the career. In my case, it…