Chapter 7

Question 1

tenure

Answer 1

• policy that provides teacher with job security
• requires sufficient grounds for dismissal
• provides due process in event of dismissal
• granted after a certain period of time

Question 2

reporting child abuse

Answer 2

• teachers required by law to report suspected child abuse

Question 3

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

Answer 3

• freedom of expression, arm bands for Vietnam war

Question 4

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier

Answer 4

• authority to school officials to censor school-sponsored student publications

Question 5

Joglin v. San Jacinto Unified School District

Answer 5

• Schools allowed to curtail students’ rights if school officials might reasonably forecast substantial disruption
• Gang related clothing

Question 6

New Jersey v. T.L.O.

Answer 6

• Reasonable search and seizure
• Schools must have
• reasonable suspicion of law violation
• search must be conducted using reasonable methods

Question 7

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Answer 7

• known as Buckley Amendment

* gave parents and students over 18 the right to examine their school records

Question 8

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Answer 8

• Source of the Lemon test

* way of determining if state has violated the separation of church and state principle

Question 9

New Jersey v. Massa

Answer 9

• Homeschooling

* homeschooling instruction must be equivalent to that offered in the public schools

Question 10

Education and the Constitution

Answer 10

•	1st Amendment
 -Five forms of freedom of expression
•	4th Amendment
 - basic privacy and security rights
•	10th Amendment
-reserves all rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution for the states
•	14th Amendment
-due process provisions

Question 11

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 11

1896, “separate but equal” facilities

Question 12

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 12

1954, outlawed state-sanctioned segregation in public schools

Question 13

Tinker v. Des Moines Board of Education

Answer 13

1969, ruled that “students do not shed their rights at the schoolhouse gate”

Question 14

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

Answer 14

1971, ruled that involuntary busing was a legitimate means of achieving school integration

Question 15

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Answer 15

1971, devised a three-part test used to determine whether the government violates the establishment clause

Question 16

Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur

Answer 16

1974, said it was discriminatory to require pregnant teachers to take mandatory, fixed-period maternity leaves