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School Boards, Not Teachers, Responsible for Curricula
School Boards, Not Teachers, Responsible for Curricula
Continue reading the Original Blog PostMark Walsh reports that teachers have no First Amendment free-speech protection for curricular decisions they make in the classroom.
"When a teacher teaches, the school system does not regulate that speech as much as it hires that speech," Sutton wrote, borrowing language from a 7th Circuit decision in a similar case. "Expression is a teacher's stock in trade, the commodity she sells to her employer in exchange for a salary. And if it is the school board that hires that speech, it can...