Abstract
After Briana Popour was asked to go home for wearing a T-shirt to school that read “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian,” she argued that the school’s speech and dress policies did not prohibit her from wearing the shirt on the school premises. While the First Amendment is black and white in theory, its application appears to be far grayer. Because of the degree of focus and the intentionality toward a student audience, this book explores student speech policy as it is conveyed in student handbooks. It does so specifically by exploring previous Supreme Court cases with regard to student expression, readability metrics, qualitative student application, and external research.
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Tierney Sneed, “S.C. High School Student Suspended for ‘Nobody Knows I’m A Lesbian’ T-Shirt,” TalkingPointsMemo.com, September 11, 2015.
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Matt Wynn. “Threat of censorship has ‘chilling effect.’ ” Quill 90, no. 3 (2002): 40.
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Salkin, E., Shenkel, L. (2017). Introduction: Student Handbooks and the First Amendment. In: Student Speech Policy Readability in Public Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44132-0_1
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