Island Tree School District vs. Pico Benjamin Waldman Civics/4B 1/12/14

"I forgot the book," Rosewater said while throwing a special book under the bed. "With them" Valencia said: "This is very funny" - Kurt Vonnegut's "Killing House Five" In 1975, the "fun" books of the island school students were mostly discarded under the bed . The Island School District was a complaint from the parent group of the Commonwealth of New York and expressed concern about the contents of the library materials. The community is concerned that it is "tolerant" to the books that the public school library in the district provides to students.

As mentioned earlier, much of the legal precedents for banning books in the United States are related to public school libraries. In 1982, the breakthrough incident of the Island Trees School District vs. Pico School Board of Education found that school officials were unable to delete library materials because they objected to the idea behind them. In order to protect the rights of representation and receipt of student information, the US Supreme Court ruled that a book or magazine must be "general vulgar" in order to be a good reason for the ban

People who oppose the ban emphasize that the first amendment will protect the right to accept and express the idea of ​​the student. The Supreme Court of the Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico (1982) judged that public schools can prohibit "general vulgarity" or inappropriate courses, but because they do not like it, they can not simply "delete a book". The idea in the middle. However, the court's decision is narrow and applies only to the removal of books from school library bookshelves.

In 1982, after years of appeal, the Supreme Court ruled in the Board of Education and the pico's ruling, "Since local education committees simply do not like the ideas contained in these books and do not enter political rules Nationalism, religion, or other opinion should be legitimate: "This case was brought up by students who opposed the directives set by the Levi's Tree School District in New York, the directive was" anti-American " Request deletion from the school library to be considered. , Anti Christianity, anti-Semitism, just a filthy book. Students are refused to accept the most basic kind of remarks. Supreme Court

Two years after the Bethel School District and Fraser incident, the Supreme Court heard another groundbreaking incident, the Hazelwood School District and the Krummeyer case. This issue focuses on student publications and covers other areas of freedom of expression and freedom of expression.

Freedom of restriction: How does the Supreme Court restrict students' freedom of speech over the past 50 years?

After the Minersville School District (Pennsylvania State) vs. Gobitis (1940), as the two students refused to offer to the national flag for religious reasons (children) as Jehovah's Witnesses, the Supreme Court ruled that (8-1) School District . A rule requiring students to pay respect to the American flag. Walt Barnette, West Virginia Witnesses, filed a lawsuit in the US District Court forbidding the enforcement of that rule. The State Board of Education appealed to the US Supreme Court who agreed to hear the case.