when a teacher tells you to stop talking is that against your right of freedom of speech?

Answer 1

If your in k-12 school then those rules do not apply. Technically you don't have any rights until your 18.

Answer 2

We are not always allowed freedom of speech , if you are thought to be disruptive you will not have any rights. Watch the video of the guy being tasered for inciting a riot on the college campus during a John Kerry speech, all he did was ask a question. You be the judge.

Answer 3

In the case of schools, they aren't violating freedom of speech. An administrator of any non public place (schools may be a public school but a grown person cant just walk in and go to a class) has the right to set the rules as he sees fit in order to keep from disruption in the learning process and anything he sees as harmful to others.

Answer 4

No. Freedom of speech is not a licence to talk whenever you want. It's about being able to say what you want. If you are at school you do what the teacher tells you. That's respect.

Answer 5

No while you are in school it is acting "In Loco Parentis" Latin for in place of parents. During the school day they have parental authority. This also applies to anyone else placed in a legal Guardianship role. Sunday school teachers, Youth leaders a variety of others. The term is a legal one.

Freedom of Speech is not unlimited either. Bearing false witness against someone else or saying something which is not true and can damage their reputation can bring civil or even criminal charges it is called slander. In writing it is called libel.

Answer 6

No. It is an attempt to maintain order in the classroom where your "talking" is known to distract and interfere with the rights of others to acquire an education to which they are entitled.

What most students don't understand is other students privately complain to their parents if they are distracted and can't get their work done or missed some information. Then the parents of other students accuse the teacher of not maintaining order in the classroom which deprives their child of an education.

Then, the teacher is subject to disciplinary action.

So, It is MUCH deeper than you think.

Answer 7

No, the teacher has freedom of speech to, and she controls the classroom. If you don't stop talking, you are violating the teacher and the classroom's freedom of speech.

Answer 8

OMG. Is that really what society is bringing students to believe. This question is absurd. Its a shame that this is what American students are being raised to believe. They do nothing wrong. Its always someone else, their rights are being taken away, the teacher yelled at me, lets sue. lets sue, I hurt my foot while I was drunk. It makes me not want to raise children in this world.

Anyways to answer your question. NO. The school is governed by their own rules. How can a teacher teach if all the kids are talking in class while she is trying to teach. Would you rather it be like the old days and you get hit with a ruler if you said anything. If your only concern in life, is WHATS IN IT FOR YOU attitute you will not go very far. I feel for you.

Answer 9

You are confusing "freedom of speech" with "freedom to yap", which is not now, and never has been, any kind of enshrined right. So, to make it simple, if a teacher asks you to stop talking, STOP TALKING.

Answer 10

When you interfere with someone else's rights, your rights are limited. If your chattering keeps someone else from learning in a learning situation, your right to fee speech ends. Between classes, talk away.

Answer 11

Well you're free to say whatever you want to say, but you also have to be willing to accept the consequences of what you say. Maybe you should think about your fellow classmates and how you are disrupting their learning. Just because you don't take your education seriously, doesn't mean everyone else feels the same way.