IRL 1: Free Speech in Schools

Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This is the first in a series called Civics 101 IRL; special episodes where we explore the historic moments connected to our regular podcast topics. Today we're digging into four incredibly important Supreme Court cases - four cases that have shaped how we interpret the meaning of free speech in public schools. Is political protest allowed in class? Is lewd speech covered by the First Amendment? Can school administrators determine what students can and can't say in the school newspaper? Listen in, and find out how students and schools have gone head to head over how First Amendment rights apply in a public school setting. CORRECTION: A previous version of this episode inaccurately stated that Justice Abe Fortas was Chief Justice. While Fortas wrote the Tinker decision, Earl Warren was the Chief Justice at the time. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:04.0	The rights of students at school are not the same as the rights of adults.
0:10.0	There is some distinction between practice and policy.
0:13.0	I take your standard applied to school loose papers when that allowed the teacher to even correct mispellings.
0:19.0	This is Civics 101. I'm Nick Capodice.
0:22.0	If you've listened to a few episodes of our show, you know that we don't have a lot of time.
0:26.0	We try to keep these things down to about 15 minutes so they're digestible.
0:30.0	And we can't really get into the moments of historical significance that are relevant to our episode topics.
0:35.0	Like landmark Supreme Court cases, actual presidential elections, all that fun stuff.
0:39.0	And that's what we're going to do today.
0:42.0	We're calling it Civics 101 IRL.
0:44.0	It's the real historical moments relative to our episode topics.
0:48.0	So I hope you have fun. Stick around.
0:51.0	Last week I got this phone call from Dave Alcox.
0:58.0	Hey Nick, this is Dave Alcox from Milford High School.
1:01.0	And Mr. Alcox is a superstar social studies teacher here in New Hampshire and a professional DJ.
1:07.0	I've got some wicked great news for you.
1:10.0	We're going to have John and Mary Beth Tinker from Tinker vs. Amoying and Kathy Komeier from Hazelwood vs. Komeier.
1:16.0	Come visit us at Milford High on November 2nd.
1:19.0	And I didn't want to sound like a complete fool when he called me.
1:23.0	But the truth is I didn't know who these people were.
1:26.0	And when I found out, I had to tell someone.
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