Student Dress Codes And The First Amendment

Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues explores the legal issues that arise when a school prohibits various types of student attire. Administrators must respect a student’s constitutional right to free speech, yet still maintain an environment that is conducive to learning, thus often creating conflicts.

This book answers the most frequently asked questions about the First Amendment in public schools and provides a framework for giving all members of the school community--students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members--a real voice in shaping the life of the school.

The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools: Free Speech, Research, and Policy explores the policy rationale, the constitutional rights of students, and the research on the impact of school uniforms.

This book examines how the intertwining of clothes and the United States Constitution raises fundamental questions of hierarchy, sexuality and democracy. Constitutional considerations both constrain and confirm daily choices. In turn, appearances provide multilayered perspectives on the Constitution and its interpretations. Garments often raise First Amendment issues of expression or religion, but they also prompt questions of equality on the basis of gender, race and sexuality. At work, in court, in schools, in prisons and on the streets, clothes and grooming provoke constitutional controversies. Additionally, the production, trade and consumption of apparel implicates constitutional concerns including colonial sumptuary laws, slavery, wage and hour laws, and current notions of free trade. The regulation of what we wear - or do not - is ubiquitous. From a noted constitutional scholar and commentator, this book examines the rights to expression and equality, as well as the restraints on government power, as they both limit and allow control of our most personal choices of attire and grooming.

Alphabetically arranged entries cover key cases, governance, technology, organizations, and individuals associated with education law.

DeMitchell explores the case law and policies of this persistent and ever-evolving problem in their latest volume on legal issues in public schools.

Written and signed by experts in the field, this volume in the pointunterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of school discipline and safety, providing readers with an illustrated overview of the subject as well as resources for further study.

Presents a guide to frequently asked legal questions within school systems, covering such topics as student rights, student discipline, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, and No Child Left Behind.