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Free Speech and Violence in School

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In Does Free Speech Stop at the Schoolhouse Door ? aired last April 30 2007 , the radio show talked about whether the administrators in schools can limit what is being said or expressed both when inside the premises of the school and when outside during school-sponsored events . Further the radio show also explored the question as to whether the rules should be altered if it is indeed the case that the administrators of the school are seeking

measures to secure peace and or maintain a singular message on drug use and other related concerns regarding the freedom of the individual in school

Robert Richards , journalism and law professor and co-founding director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment at Penn State reiterated the brief history of the constitutional rights of students starting from the Tinker case in 1969 which was then placed under certain limits by the Frazier v . Bethel School District case in 1986 The contentions primarily resided on the issue of violence

A brief interview of the two attorneys involved in the court battle Kenneth Starr on the prosecution and Jay Sekulow on the defense , to shed light on the facts of the case and on the oral arguments posited in court

The show also talked about dress codes , legal cases against school plays that show explicit sexuality , the future of student 's right to speech especially in the internet , and the real mission of education as illustrated in Morse v . Frederick . It also talked about the how the rights to free speech of students play out in the context of newss and other student publications

The show ends with a brief interview with Mary Beth Tinker . The case of Mary Beth Tinker in 1969 was used as a pivotal example to illustrate the conflicting views regarding the rights to free speech of students

In School Violence aired last January 22 , 2007 , the radio show talked about the possibility of having school violence regardless of any region , either rural or urban , in the nation . One example that the show used to assert this idea is the case of the school shooting which occurred in an Amish community near Lancaster , Pennsylvania . In connection to this , the radio show sought to assess whether lock-downs random searches , metal detectors and other safety measures really make school safer for students and teachers . Measures to preempt bullying were also tackled

Margot Adler gave a few strong actual incidents as examples to show that safety measures undertaken by school administrators are not sufficient to secure the welfare of students and teachers alike Katherine Newman , professor of public affairs at Princeton University gave statements regarding the situation in America 's schools

Ken Trump , president of National School Safety and Security Services and Peter Sheras , a professor of education at the University of Virginia and a psychologist , gave several perspectives on violence that occurs at school or that is related to...