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Kids' Court: Ten Classroom Cases Based on the Constitution
Kids' Court Ten Classroom Cases Based on the Constitution Author:Nancy Levitin Hear ye! Hear ye! Kids' Court is called to order! Students at Omni Middle School were miserable. Every week Principal Leghorn created a new rule for them to follow, each rule more restricting that the first. But the students had had enough. They created Kids' Court! — At Kids' Court, students ... more »challenge decisions made by their teachers and principal when they think their constitutional rights have been violated.
Is it legal for a teacher or principal to:
refuse to print an article in the school paper? Find out in The Case of the School Newspaper.
suspend a student for teasing the new kid? Take a look at The Case of the Big-Mouthed Bully.
frisk students and install video cameras all over school? Read The Case of the Searched Students.
The decisions reached in each case are based on real constitutional law cases!« less