fracturedfairfax Wrote:
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> Kids absolutely do have constitutional rights, and
> the Fairfax County Public Schools system played a
> small part in affirming that their students have
> the right of free speech.
>
> In 1976, Hayfield Secondary Principal Doris
> Torrice precipitated a controversy over an article
> proposed for the student newspaper, The Farm News,
> when she required that parts of the article,
> titled "Sexually Active Students Fail to Use
> Contraception", be removed before she would allow
> publication.
>
> The article's author, 17-year-old editor Lauren
> Boyd and assistant editor Gina Gambino, appealed
> Torrice's decision, first to Superintendent S.
> John Davis and then to the Fairfax County School
> Board, which voted on December 6 to affirm Davis'
> decision.
>
> Unsatisfied with this result, Boyd and Gambino
> literally made a Federal case out of the situation
> and sued the School Board for infringing on their
> first amendment rights.
>
> District Court Judge Albert V. Bryan, Jr.
> overruled the School Board's censorship in a
> decision issued on February 23, 1977.
>
> Being sore losers and having access to a huge
> supply of taxpayer money to pay for expensive
> lawyers, the school board appealed the decision,
> which was affirmed by the United States Court of
> Appeals, Fourth Circuit, on October 17, 1977.
>
> The 4th Circuit's decision, Gambino v. Fairfax
> County School Board, can be found at
>
http://openjurist.org/564/f2d/157/gambino-v-fairfa
> x-county-school-board-s-t-m-h-g-j-e-s
>
> Source:
>
http://www.fracturedfairfax.com/Hayfield_Secondary
> _School.html
Thanks. That’s good to know.