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ERIC Number: EJ629301
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
A Web of Disruption?
Zirkel, Perry A.
Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n9 p717-18 May 2001
In July 2000, the Commonwealth Court (of Pennsylvania) issued a decision upholding Bethlehem School District's 10-day suspension of a middle-schooler who had created a website that childishly ridiculed a teacher and the principal. This decision is another that subordinates students' 14th Amendment rights to school-safety concerns. (MLH)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Due Process, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Libel and Slander, Middle Schools, Privacy, School Safety, Student Rights
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Fourteenth Amendment; Pennsylvania (Bethlehem)