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Legal Principles in Preventing and Responding to School Violence.

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McCarthy, Martha M.; Webb, L. Dean – NASSP Bulletin, 2000

School administrators are challenged to maintain the delicate balance between protecting individuals' rights and ensuring the general welfare by maintaining a safe, secure learning environment. Legal principles and precedents governing restrictions on student appearance, privacy and procedural rights, harassment and hate crimes, and suicide are…

Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Due Process

Balancing Duties and Rights.

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McCarthy, Martha M.; Webb, L. Dean – Principal Leadership, 2000

Schools are legally obligated to protect students from injury, report child abuse, and curtail harassment and hate crimes. Educators' duties to maintain safe school environments often conflict with students' constitutionally protected rights governing expression, appearance, unreasonable searches, and due process regarding zero-tolerance policies…

Descriptors: Child Abuse, Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education