Are school records public information?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoSchool records, which may include medical, legal, criminal, or mental health information, are not public records. This means that only certain people have access to...
View ArticleI′m a student with a disability. What rights do I have?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoNot long ago, children with disabilities were excluded from the same educational advantages given to students without disabilities. Beginning in 1975, a number of...
View ArticleDo students with AIDS have a right to an education?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoRyan White was thirteen years old when he was diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS. He had been infected by treatments for his hemophilia. In 1985, he was...
View ArticleDo students have a right to cell phone privacy while at school?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoIn May, 2007 a school security officer at Monarch High School in Colorado saw a 16-year-old sophomore smoking in the school parking lot. He took the student to the...
View ArticleDo any states have laws that protect student expression rights?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoThe answer is yes – there are a handful of states with laws regarding different forms of student expression rights. As you know, the First Amendment to the U.S....
View ArticleIs wearing the confederate flag to school protected as “symbolic speech”?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.info The display of the Confederate flag, as shown here, has been the subject of numerous lawsuits. In January, 2009, a federal court ruled against students wearing the...
View ArticleWhat is Title IX and how does it affect me?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoIn 1972, Congress passed the Equal Opportunity in Education Act, popularly referred to as Title IX (sometimes referred to as Title 9). The intended purpose of the...
View ArticleDo students have a right to express themselves at school through music & art?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoAre you at liberty in school to sing or write music using any words or phrases? Does the method of communication give you more leeway in expressing yourself? Is...
View ArticleWhat does affirmative action mean?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoIn an effort to compensate for past offenses against African Americans regarding slavery and racial discrimination, the United States coined the term “affirmative...
View ArticleIs hazing illegal?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoHazing laws exist in most states to protect students from serious harm, usually physical, and even death as there have been too many tragic outcomes from what may...
View ArticleCan you get in trouble for cross dressing at school?
Content Provided By AskTheJudge.infoIn recent years, school dress codes have come under attack while students cross dressing at school, girls wearing tuxes and boys wearing dresses to the prom and...
View ArticleDo you have to be vaccinated to go to school?
Do your parents oppose you being vaccinated for personal or religious reasons? Too bad says California governor Jerry Brown. California has become the largest state to legally require all school...
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