March 2008 Archives » Askthejudge
School lunch–for just pennies!
Last week, twenty-nine 7th and 8th graders at Readington Middle School in New Jersey decided to protest the length of their “lunch hour.” Since they were given only 30 minutes for lunch, they each brought 200 pennies to school to pay for their $2.00 meal. This amounted to …
Do any states have laws that protect student expression rights?
The answer is yes – there are a handful of states with laws regarding different forms of student expression rights. As you know, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants you freedom of speech and assembly. States can also provide protection for its citizens by passing their own laws or …
Valentine’s Day 2008 will be remembered at a California high school
High school newspaper tries to get attention and raise awareness 15-year-old Richard Edmond is the editor of Le Sabre, his high school’s newspaper. For the Valentine’s Day issue he tried to raise awareness of violence against women with a lead story about the play “Vagina Monologues.” …
Third-graders searched for missing $5.00.
In February, 2008, an envelope containing $5.00 was missing from the teacher’s desk. It was decided that the 17 third-graders at Martin Luther King Elementary in Kentucky would be searched. They were asked to take off their shoes and socks, and some were patted down …