Discipline in Public Schools: Recent Court Cases
"From 1969 to 1975, amid increasing legal challenges to the regulation of student expression in school, the Court's rulings largely confirmed students' rights to various free expression and due process protections" (Arum & Priess 2009). In Goss et al. v. Lopez et al. The U.S. Supreme Court decided that public school students do have a right to due process. In the case, a student was expelled from the Ohio public schools without a hearing for being disorderly and the school contended that because the U.S. Constitution does not specify that every citizen is entitled to a free education at public expense "the Due Process Clause does not protect against expulsions from the public school system" (Goss et al. v. Lopez, 1975). However, the majority finding of the court was that although there is not a specifically delineated right to education under the Fourteenth Amendment, "this position misconceives the nature of the issue and is refuted by prior decisions. The Fourteenth Amendment forbids the State to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law" (Goss et al. v. Lopez, 1975).
Such protected interests, such as employment or the right to public education are not "not created by the Constitution. Rather, they are created and their dimensions are defined" through interpretation while in the example, the "appellees plainly had legitimate claims of entitlement to a public education (Goss et al. v. Lopez, 1975). The finding of the court in favor of the expelled student seems essential not simply to protect the rights of students, but to protect the rights of citizens in general. Had the courts found otherwise, not...
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