Axia College Material Appendix C Rights and Responsibilities of Educators and Students Perform a search in the University Library databases and locate four school related court cases with outcomes decided two which involve educators as defendants and two which involve students as defendants Fill in the table below When you give your informed opinion state and discuss whether you agree or disagree with the outcome Base your opinion on legal and ethical standards as discussed in Ch 9 of the text If you do not agree with the outcome explain what would have been just Base your explanation upon the rights and responsibilities of those involved Cite your sources in APA format below the table Your Informed Opinion I agree with the outcome You need evidence to convict someone Name and Date of Case Case 1 Educator as Defendant Name of Case Approximate Date s Brief Overview of Case and Outcome Kyle Soule teacher State vs Kyle Soule Apr 14 2009 Teacher accused of indecent assault on three girls at Abby Kelley School In court yesterday there was some confusion about the number of alleged victims and Mr Soule s legal representation Judge Steven A Thomas said it looked to him as if all three charges were related to the same girl Judge Thomas set bail at 2 000 cash and continued the case to May 7 for further arraignment Mr Soule was also ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim or AED 201 Name and Date of Case Your Informed Opinion Case 2 Educator as Defendant Name of Case Jon White teacher State vs Jon White May 22 2009 Approximate Date s I agree with this decision since they had evidence to support the case Brief Overview of Case and Outcome the victim s family Charges were dropped for lack of evidence Foskett Jr 2009 April 14 Two former first grade students at Unit 5 s Colene Hoose Elementary School were treated as slaves sexually abused and subjected to bizarre classroom rituals according to a lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of the students and their parents Jon White who is serving 60 years in prison for sexually abusing nine Urbana students and the two girls named in the lawsuit filed May 7 in U S District Court in Peoria Brady Lunny 2009 May 22 AED 201 Name and Date of Case Case 3 Student as Defendant Name of Case Brief Overview of Case and Outcome Your Informed Opinion Gregory Johnson a member of a Communist youth organization I agree with this decision he chose the wrong way to protest Approximate Date s 1989 Texas v Johnson U S Supreme Court decision issued on June 21 1989 declaring that burning the American flag as a form of symbolic speech was an action protected by First Amendment guarantees of free speech In its 5 to 4 decision the Court ruled that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable The case involved Gregory Johnson a member of a Communist youth organization who was convicted of defiling the flag after he burned one during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas Texas The ruling invalidated state and federal laws against desecrating the flag and led to proposals for a U S constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning The Court is therefore quite wrong in blandly asserting that respondent AED 201 Name and Date of Case Your Informed Opinion Brief Overview of Case and Outcome was prosecuted for his expression of dissatisfaction with the policies of this country expression situated at the core of our First Amendment values Ante at 2543 Respondent was prosecuted because of the method he chose to express his dissatisfaction with those policies 109 Supreme Court Reporter 1989 Kuhlmeier Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier 1988 In Hazelwood 1988 a high school principal prohibited the publication of two stories in the school s student newspaper one dealing with teen pregnancy and another about the effects of divorce The court upheld the principal s judgment in denying publication based on the Case 4 Student as Defendant Name of Case Approximate Date s I agree with the decision since it was a school paper if it had been an off school papers the school would have nothing to do with it AED 201 Name and Date of Case Your Informed Opinion Brief Overview of Case and Outcome legitimate pedagogical concerns associated with the planned newspaper articles Subsequent student newspaper decisions have continued to support administrative censorship of student newspapers based on pedagogical concerns Graca and Stader 2007 References Steven H Foskett Jr 2009 April 14 Teacher accused of indecent assault on three girls at Abby Kelley School Telegram Gazette B 1 Retrieved June 7 2009 from ProQuest Newsstand database Document ID 1678838841 Edith Brady Lunny 2009 May 22 White faces new lawsuit Former Unit 5 teacher accused of treating first graders as slaves Pantagraph A 1 Retrieved June 7 2009 from Business Dateline database Document ID 1728219411 109 Supreme Court Reporter 1989 Texas v Johnson American History Online Retrieved June 7 2009 from Facts On File Inc http www fofweb com activelink2 asp ItemID WE52 iPin E11930 SingleRecord True Thomas J Graca and David L Stader 2007 Student Speech and the Internet A Legal Analysis Retrieved June 7 2009 from APOLLO GROUP INC http bul sagepub com cgi content refs 91 2 121 AED 201 AED 201