Public School Employees and the Limits of “Free Speech”

Rick Geisel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:13:01 +0100

The recent case of Fox v. Traverse City Area Public Schools (2010 WL 1948203) serves as a good reminder that the speech of public school employees is not always “protected speech” as most of us have come to understand that term in the context of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

On a procedural note, this case was first heard by the U.S. District Court for the WesteRead More...

What Can We Learn from a “Drunken Pirate”?

Rick Geisel — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:14:42 +0100

To read press accounts, one would think that Stacey Snyder was dismissed from her teacher preparation program at Millersville University solely because she posted a picture of herself on her myspace site with the caption “drunken pirate” posted underneath. However, like most press accounts, there’s more to the story…much more.

Perhaps Snyder began believing the hype at some point and conveniently disregarded some of the finer details of her studRead More...

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Public School Employees and the Limits of “Free Speech”

What Can We Learn from a “Drunken Pirate”?