The schoolhouse gate : public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the American mind / Justin Driver.
2018
KF4150 .D75 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The schoolhouse gate : public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the American mind / Justin Driver.
Author
Driver, Justin, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781101871652 (hardcover)
1101871652 (hardcover)
9781101871669 (electronic book)
1101871652 (hardcover)
9781101871669 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]
Language
English
Description
viii, 564 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
KF4150 .D75 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
344.73/0793
Summary
From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from economic inequality to public prayer and homeschooling, the Supreme Court has addressed many divisive issues concerning our educational system. Driver provides a fresh account of the historic legal battles, and argues that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has transformed public schools into Constitution-free zones. He highlights the personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and shows how the decisions have threatened our basic constitutional order. -- adapted from publisher info
By a brilliant young constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago--who clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for Judge Merrick B. Garland and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer, and who also happens to be an elegant stylist--a powerfully alarming book concerned to vindicate the constitutional rights of public school students, so often trampled upon by the Supreme Court in recent decades Supreme Court decisions involving the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently been most controversial. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from economic inequality to public prayer and homeschooling: these are but a few of the many divisive issues that the Supreme Court has addressed vis-a-vis elementary and secondary education. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education. It argues that since the 1970s, the Supreme Court through its decisions has transformed public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court's decisions over the last four decades would conclude that the following actions taken by school officials pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporeal punishment on students without any procedural protections; searching students and their possessions, without probable cause, in bids to uncover violations of school rules; engaging in random drug testing of students who are not suspected of any wrongdoing; and suppressing student speech solely for the viewpoint that it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have validated a wide array of constitutionally dubious actions, including: repressive student dress codes; misguided "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies; degrading student strip searches; and harsh restrictions on off-campus speech in the internet age. Justin Driver dramatically and keenly surveys this battlefield of constitutional meaning and warns that impoverished views of constitutional protections will only further rend our social fabric.
By a brilliant young constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago--who clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for Judge Merrick B. Garland and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer, and who also happens to be an elegant stylist--a powerfully alarming book concerned to vindicate the constitutional rights of public school students, so often trampled upon by the Supreme Court in recent decades Supreme Court decisions involving the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently been most controversial. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from economic inequality to public prayer and homeschooling: these are but a few of the many divisive issues that the Supreme Court has addressed vis-a-vis elementary and secondary education. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education. It argues that since the 1970s, the Supreme Court through its decisions has transformed public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court's decisions over the last four decades would conclude that the following actions taken by school officials pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporeal punishment on students without any procedural protections; searching students and their possessions, without probable cause, in bids to uncover violations of school rules; engaging in random drug testing of students who are not suspected of any wrongdoing; and suppressing student speech solely for the viewpoint that it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have validated a wide array of constitutionally dubious actions, including: repressive student dress codes; misguided "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies; degrading student strip searches; and harsh restrictions on off-campus speech in the internet age. Justin Driver dramatically and keenly surveys this battlefield of constitutional meaning and warns that impoverished views of constitutional protections will only further rend our social fabric.
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Includes bibliographical references an index.
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Table of Contents
Early encounters with race, culture, religion, and patriotism
Freedom of expression from black armbands to BONG HiTS 4 JESUS
Suspensions, corporal punishment, and intolerable "zero tolerance" policies
Policing student investigations : searching students' bodies, suspicionless drug testing, and Miranda warnings
Equal protection I : racial segregation and the enduring battle over Brown v. Board of Education
Equal protection II : funding disparities, sex separations, and unauthorized immigration
The quiet dâetente over religion and education.
Freedom of expression from black armbands to BONG HiTS 4 JESUS
Suspensions, corporal punishment, and intolerable "zero tolerance" policies
Policing student investigations : searching students' bodies, suspicionless drug testing, and Miranda warnings
Equal protection I : racial segregation and the enduring battle over Brown v. Board of Education
Equal protection II : funding disparities, sex separations, and unauthorized immigration
The quiet dâetente over religion and education.