CSPAN2 Childrens July 3, 2024
Not all speech is protected. A true threats, fighting words, incitement and obscenity are categories of unprotected speech that we allow the government more leeway in regulating. So what does all this mean in the k12 context . The Supreme Court has famously said students and teachers do not lose their First Amendment rights of the schoolhouse gate. But the court has also recognized Public Schools necessarily have more authority to regulate speech at a school van the government would normally have in other contexts. The government can regulate content like curriculum as long as the decisions ar...