please help hazelwood school district vs. kuhlmeier?

Question

please help me can you please give me a short summary on the case and the courts desicion

Answer 1

I am not sure this is "short" but here is the web site you will find the summary on: http://www.landmarkcases.org/hazelwood/background3.html

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Answer 2

Censorship is the basis of this case. This case concerns the extent to which educators may exercise editorial control over the contents of a high school newspaper produced as part of the school's journalism curriculum. This a late '80s Supreme Court ruling that gives principals the power to review and censor high school newspapers and it continues to have chilling effects on high school journalism.

Issues of free speech in high schools were first considered by the Supreme Court in Tinker vs. Des Moines. The 1969 decision, which concerned students who were suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, ruled that a student's right to free expression should not be limited while in school or on school grounds. Although the case did not deal specifically with newspapers, it was interpreted to apply to all kinds of student expression--including student newspapers.

But in 1988, the Supreme Court handed down a different decision, one that specifically limits the free-press rights of high school students. The case, Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier, concerned students at a suburban St. Louis high school who were prevented by their principal from publishing articles about teenage pregnancy and the effects of divorce on high school students in the school-sponsored student newspaper. The Court ruled that "educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising editorial control over the style and content of student speech in school-sponsored expressive activities so long as their actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns."


http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1226
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/firstamendment/hazelwood.html
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=17682

Answer 3

www.google.com <---- do it yourself hun.