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Students Rights and Responsibility

The document discusses various student rights and responsibilities including freedom of expression, suspension and expulsion, classroom discipline, search and seizure, sexual harassment, student records and privacy rights, protection from violence, and compulsory attendance. It provides an overview of related court cases and legal issues that schools contend with regarding these topics.

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Students Rights and Responsibility

The document discusses various student rights and responsibilities including freedom of expression, suspension and expulsion, classroom discipline, search and seizure, sexual harassment, student records and privacy rights, protection from violence, and compulsory attendance. It provides an overview of related court cases and legal issues that schools contend with regarding these topics.

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Students Rights and ■ Libraries, including school

libraries, have been sued for using


Responsibility filtering software to screen out
sexually oriented Internet sites.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

 Students are free to express their o Dress Codes and


views except when such conduct Regulations
disrupts class work, causes disorder, - Many courts have had to
or invades the rights of others. eg. determine whether dress codes
Tinker v.Des Moines Independent and regulations constitute an
Community School District (1969). unconstitutional restriction on
students’ rights to free
Which can also be seen in: expression.
o Student Internet Use
- The Internet has generated  A school newspaper is not a public
legal issues that educators forum and can be regulated by
will be contending with for a school officials.
long time to come. Like  Schools need not permit offensive or
businesses and other disruptive speech.
organizations, most schools
have “acceptable use SUSPENSION AND EXPULSION
policies” that govern the
 Suspension from school requires
online behavior of students
some form of due process for
and staff provided that
students. eg. Goss v. Lopez (1975)
statutory and constitutional
requirements protecting free CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE AND
speech and other rights are CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
not thereby violated.
Developments include the  Corporal punishment is not cruel or
following: unusual punishment and is permitted
where allowed by state law.
■ Schools have installed software to
inhibit access to Internet sites that SEARCH AND SEIZURE
programmers have classified as  To be constitutional, searches of
pornographic, obscene, or otherwise students and students’ property must
undesirable for children or youth. meet a two-pronged test.
o Controversy Regarding
■ Some students have been punished Students with Disabilities
for sending e-mail or posting - Disabled students who
webpages that school officials are disruptive must be
considered threatening, defamatory, retained in their current
exclusionary, obscene, or potentially placement until official
disruptive or destructive. hearings are completed.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR
MOLESTATION OF STUDENTS
 School districts are not legally at
fault when a teacher sexually
harasses a student unless the school
acted with “deliberate indifference”
in failing to stop it.

STUDENT RECORDS AND PRIVACY


RIGHTS
 Private notes and memoranda of
teachers and administrators
(including grade books) are exempt
from view. In addition, records kept
separate from official files and
maintained for law enforcement
purposes (for example, information
about criminal behavior) cannot be
disclosed. Nothing may be revealed
that would jeopardize the privacy
rights of other pupils. Last, schools
may disclose directory-type
information without prior consent;
however, students or their families
may request that even this
information be withheld.

PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE

 Educators have a duty to protect


students against violent actions that
occur at school or at school-
sponsored events, which frequently
extends to off-campus events such as
graduations, proms, and parties.
Depending on the circumstances, the
courts may find school districts or
their employees legally liable for
failing in this duty.

COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AND


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