A Synthesis Model for Passing State Student Press Legislation

Plopper, Bruce L.

doi:10.1177/107769589605100108

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“…There is no doubt student press law has been well scrutinized from several angles, including (a) interpretations of court decisions (Nelson, 1974;Trager, 1974;Trager and Dickerson, 1980;Kristof, 1983;Student Press Law Center, 1994), (b) effects on student publications editors, student publications advisers, and high school principals Kopenhaver, 1986,1990;Dickson, 1991;Dickson and Paxton, 1997;Kopenhaver and Click, 2000;Paxton and Dickson, ZOOO), and (c) legal maneuvers to negate U. s. Supreme Court decisions in this legal arena (Plopper, 1996;Plopper and Downs, ' ... by using the framework 1998). There is also n o doubt that such research has been extent in porties of student press law as it provided byfuzzy logic, it is possible to go beyond traditional approaches to student press law useful to some traying the realiby examining the language of student press law.'…”

Section: Student Expression Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Fuzzy Logic on Student Press Law

McCool¹,

Plopper²

2001

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

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Court supports public education as "a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values" (Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, at 493 (1954)), and believes public schools should inculcate in children the "fundamental values necessary to the maintenance of a democratic political system" (Ambach v. Norwich, 441 U.S. 68, at 76-77 (1979)), the Court never has addressed in precise terms the restrictions that public school systems may place upon their students' fundamental right of free expression. In fact, beginning with Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969), the Court during a 19-year period fashioned a set of ill-defined guidelines by which student expression may be governed.To determine whether these guidelines have affected the meaning of free expression for non-university, public school students, a set of narrowly defined student publication decisions is analyzed using fuzzy logic, a relatively new science. The study reviews lower court decisions and appellate court decisions from the last four decades, and draws conclusions concerning the relationships between court language and case outcome.

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Section: Student Expression Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%