In Hazelwood East High School, the students who sued their school reported some cases. Some students in the school enrolled in a class of journalism. The students were responsible for the writing and the editing of the school’s magazine. The articles submitted contained stories of teenage pregnancy and divorce. In the magazine, the divorce section concerned of girl’s story that put blame of her father for the divorce of the parents. On the contrary, the teenage pregnancy section shared information regarding their pregnancy in high school. The identity of the girls was protected by using fake names in the magazine. However, the school head teacher felt that the two subjects were inappropriate. His reasons for his refusal included because the father in the story should be notified prior before publication of the story and his comments considered as well (Bomboy, 2014). The case of teenage pregnancy was rendered as inappropriate for the younger children to read and that changing their names would not help them in changing their anonymity. The pages containing the two topics were eliminated. The students went to the court claiming that their freedom of speech was been suppressed by the school’s administration. After the district court claimed that their rights were not violated, the students appealed to the Court of appeal that reversed the decision from the district court.
The students of the Neshaminy’s school magazine were faced with the legal storms while editing the Playwickian . The scenario in this case involved the restriction of using certain phrases such as the Redskins in their magazine. The school officials want to use the word redskin which most of the administrators view that it would be inappropriate to use that word. However, the same term redskin is the name used to refer to the sports team of the school.
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The two cases are similar since they both involve students suing their school’s various departments. Besides that, both the students in Hazelwood and Neshaminy high school claim that their right to freedom of speech is being violated. However, the cases could be different in that the Hazelwood’s ban on the teenage pregnancy and the divorce cases was a ban on using of adult language that could not be acceptable to the people of a young age. However, the documents and the television programs regarding the topic of divorce and teenage pregnancy are exposed to the young people at a very tender age (Recent Cases, 1973). The stories could motivate them to avoid teenage pregnancy in all the means possible by reading about other people’s stories. Besides that, the students that wrote the teenage pregnancy topic had already given their consent and probably were willing to share their stories with other people as a form of motivation and learning experience. Thus, the principal would have considered this before the banning of the publication of the magazine section containing the topic of teenage pregnancy. However, this is different because the students of Nemashiny wanted to use a banned word in the USA government in the publication of its magazine. However, the name was banned in Washington DC after they realized it caused more harm than good among the black American community. The use of the name was wrong but it was quite ironical that the school uses the term redskins while referring to their sports team. Thus, despite that, the two cases are similar; they are also different as listed above.
In the case where the Neshaminy case goes to the Supreme Court, the school might be found guilty since it uses the term, Redskins while referring to the sports team while it prevents the students from using the term. The event that results is quite ironical since one may assume that the term used in the magazine was in response with the name of their school’s sports team. However, the Supreme Court might rule against the school editors’ team since the term has been seen to cause variety forms of prejudice among a particular race.
The cases are important to the schools and their teachers as well since they are critical towards the decision-making process. The cases allow most teachers to take note of the fact that students are aware of their rights and responsibilities. Besides that, the freedom of free speech is also a theme that should be practiced both out of school and in school as well. The students were responsible for the writing and the editing of the school’s magazine. The articles submitted contained stories of teenage pregnancy and divorce (Oyez, 1987). In the magazine, the divorce section concerned of girl’s story that put blame of her father for the divorce of the parents. On the contrary, the teenage pregnancy section shared information regarding their pregnancy in high school. The identity of the girls was protected by using fake names in the magazine. The head teacher in this case should have taken into consideration that most of the books and movies regarded the topics are at the disposal of other children hence that should not be perceived as an excuse towards the banning of some of the subjects from school.
Contrary to that, the Nemashiny’s school case is also relevant for the teachers and students in a variety of ways. First, the case comprised of the students of the Neshaminy’s school magazine was faced with the legal storms while editing the Playwickian (Iii. Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure.,1974). The scenario in this case involved the restriction of using certain phrases such as the Redskins in their magazine. The school officials want to use the word redskin which most of the administrators view that it would be inappropriate to use that word. However, the same term redskin is the name used to refer to the sports team of the school. In this case, teachers are encouraged by this case study to be individuals that are role models to their children. Thus, the term redskins should be changed if they do not want their students to keep using that same term.
In conclusion, this paper focuses on two cases that involved students from different schools and wanted to sue their school’s administrators. For instance, In Hazelwood East High School, the students who sued their school reported some cases. Some students in the school enrolled in a class of journalism. The students were responsible for the writing and the editing of the school’s magazine. The articles submitted contained stories of teenage pregnancy and divorce. In the magazine, the divorce section concerned of girl’s story that put blame of her father for the divorce of the parents. On the contrary, the teenage pregnancy section shared information regarding their pregnancy in high school. However, the head teacher denied these students the right to publish this two topics of their school magazine. Besides that, the Nemashiny’s school sued the management for not allowing them use the term redskins in their magazine while it was the name of the sports team of the school. The two cases are likely to face different rulings since they have some similarities and differences as seen in this paper. The two cases are similar since they both involve students suing their school’s various departments. Besides that, both the students in Hazelwood and Neshaminy high school claim that their right to freedom of speech is being violated. However, the cases could be different in that the Hazelwood’s ban on the teenage pregnancy and the divorce cases was a ban on using of adult language that could not be acceptable to the people of a young age while the other case involves the use of the term redskins in the school magazine in Nemashiny high school.
References
Bomboy, S. (2014). Students’ fight over Redskins name and some First Amendment issues . Retrieved from constitution daily.
Iii. Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure. (1974). Harvard Law Review , 88 (1), 203.
Oyez (1987). Body Politic . Available at: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1987/86-836 (Accessed: 14 January 2017).
In-text citations:
Recent Cases. (1973). Harvard Law Review , 86 (7), 1307.
