What is the effect of the teacher being a social studies which probably includes some civics instruction -- at least in my school district the social studies classes consider current events every year no matter what the main focus of the course is that year. Surely the gay rights issue is one that should be discussed in class. Does that affect the rights of the teacher to make such an emotion-laden semi-public statement?
In general, I think teachers and students should be given broad latitude by the administration. Just what the Constitution requires is harder. Steve -- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Associate Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice http://iipsj.org Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8567 http://iipsj.com/SDJ/ "Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty." Mark Twain
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