Published: March 23, 2009 SAFFORD, Ariz. — Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade. An assistant principal, enforcing the school’s antidrug policies, [...]
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School district sued over anthem practiced at The Webster School Parents of two elementary school students last week filed a lawsuit against the St. Johns County School District, saying their children’s constitutional rights were violated when teachers required them to rehearse a song that declares “there’s no doubt” the United States is a Christian nation. [...]
By MICHAEL C. DORF Monday, March 23, 2009 Two 2008 federal appeals court rulings—one that may be on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and another that is already there—raise thorny questions of the extent to which schoolchildren enjoy the protections afforded by the Constitution to adults. In Frazier v. Alexandre, the U.S. [...]
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