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- Erika Mahoney
- Username: erika811
- Location: Boulder, CO
- Joined PRX: Jan 21, 2007
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- "Students' Rights: Then and Now"
- Summary: In 1969 the Supreme Court found that students "do not shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate." Today, most schools retain the right to regulate speech if it is "disrupting school activities." But who decides what is disruptive?
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Review of Students' Rights: Then and Now
Erika Mahoney
Posted on March 27, 2007 at 03:44 PM
I really enjoyed listening to this expository piece by Charlie Thaxton. It was interesting how he juxtaposed a historical Supreme Court trial on student's rights with the present situation in the United States. By making this connection to the present, readers can take something away from this piece because even if we may have not lived during the Tinker vs. Demoine School District trial, we can understand the role it plays for students today.
One of my favorite parts about the piece was the sound byte that began the entire audio clip. This sound byte came from the Tinker vs. Demoine School District trial and it really set the tone for the rest of the piece. My only advice is that while I was listening to Charlie's narration, I hoped another sound byte, maybe from the recent trial that he described, would be brought in again.