Moral Fiber?.

Zirkel, Perry A.

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ERIC Number: EJ612906

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2000

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Moral Fiber?

Zirkel, Perry A.

Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n1 p93-94 Sep 2000

Discusses a 2000 federal trial court decision upholding a Kentucky district's termination of a tenured teacher who presented a curricular segment on industrial hemp as part of a "save-the-trees" unit. The decision underscores teachers' severely limited constitutional rights in the curricular context. (MLH)

Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Curriculum, Due Process, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Freedom of Speech, Grade 5, Teacher Dismissal, Teacher Rights

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Kentucky

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