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What Can I Say in School? An Examination of Students’ Freedom of Speech

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Participants will analyze landmark Supreme Court cases that define students’ freedom of speech, and then examine a recent challenge, Hawk and McDonald-Martinez v. Easton Areas School district(2013)—otherwise known as the I Heart Boobies case. To guide thinking, students will apply the IRAC case analysis technique and then will write majority and dissenting opinions as Supreme Court Justices.
            
              


 
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