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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"That is because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that students have the same First Amendment
rights as anyone else in school libraries, and removing books based on content is unconstitutional censorship. Writing for the majority in that 1982 case, Board of Education v. Pico, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. concluded that school officials may not exercise their discretion to remove books based on "narrowly partisan or political grounds," because that would amount to an "official suppression of ideas."
Skittles
(153,261 posts)heaven forbid kids learn the truth
multigraincracker
(32,746 posts)Constitutionalist. Until they aren't.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)racism, sexism, xenophobia - they THRIVE on hatred and fear
repukes are finding their usual racist schtick doesn't resonate in the burbs like it used to, because many of us pearly white folk have been living in very diverse neighborhoods for some time now, and WE AIN'T SCARED, WE LIKE IT....so they are having to go deeper and work on the kids....it is some fucked up SHIT
2naSalit
(86,900 posts)To think for themselves.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,449 posts)That will buy them 15 more years of litigation because progressive or liberal issues are never fast-tracked at SCOTUS.
stopdiggin
(11,404 posts)"narrowly partisan or political grounds," doesn't offer much protection (even today) for much in the area of social justice - LGBTQ, gay marriage, criminal justice and race, CRT (although I hesitate to add the last, because it hasn't really even been approached on a high school or public school level).
This is still very much an ongoing battle - and if you've taken any look at what our school boards look like today ...