Law and Ethics Notes

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?
speech, press, religion, assembly, petition
2. What is the Tinker Standard?
States that student speech cannot be censored as long as it does not "materially disrupt class work or involve substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others." (1969) Also, our rights that we have outside of the school should be allowed inside the school too.

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
Because school officials have an "interest in teaching students the boundaires of socially appropriate behavior," they can censor student speech that is vulgar or indecent, even if it does not cause a "material or substantial disruption." (1986)

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
Censorship of school sponsored student expression is permissible when school officials can show that it is "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." (1988)

5. What is the Frederick Standard?
The Frederick Standard says that any authorized school activity still enables the school to tell you what you can and cannot do. (2002)

6. What is the definition of libel?
 Libel is visual or written, untrue statement that hurts someones reputation.