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ERIC Number: EJ612906
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Moral Fiber?
Zirkel, Perry A.
Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n1 p93-94 Sep 2000
Discusses a 2000 federal trial court decision upholding a Kentucky district's termination of a tenured teacher who presented a curricular segment on industrial hemp as part of a "save-the-trees" unit. The decision underscores teachers' severely limited constitutional rights in the curricular context. (MLH)
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Curriculum, Due Process, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Freedom of Speech, Grade 5, Teacher Dismissal, Teacher Rights
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Kentucky