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This 13 page report discusses the freedom of expression available to and exercised by students. Repression of student expression in the United States is still present in the daily life of both educators and students ranging from elementary school through university. This report examines the overall issue, as well as litigation that has taken place regarding student freedom of expression at both the state and federal levels. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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has taken place. Circumstances in recent history such as China during the Cultural Revolution and the formation of the Soviet Union immediately come to mind. According to the international advocacy
group, Human Rights Watch (1997), more contemporary situations repressing educational information and freedom (or lack thereof) include: Indonesian teachers and students imprisoned for "critical thinking;" an Egyptian engineering professor arrested
for possessing and attempting to make copies of a paper that criticized a controversial new agrarian law; and, the arrest of an education professor at the University of Gaza for
asking an essay question regarding the impact of corruption in either the administration of the university or the Palestinian Authority. In addition,
Human Rights Watch (1997) has also pointed out that numerous students have had to face the wrath of "the authorities" in Burma, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, South Korea and Zambia.
In many of these difficult situations, tens or hundreds of thousands of students were injured or killed in crackdowns on vocal student activities (Human Rights Watch, 1997). Protests
have been met by military opposition, and in countries like Burma, Kenya and Nigeria, students were killed for their vocal viewpoints (Human Rights Watch, 1997). In each situation, the
problems have resulted from governments bent on imposing a monolithic state ideology. While repression of student expression is, of course, has never been
as brutal, even with the college riots of the 1960s and 1970s, it still is present in the daily life of both educators and students ranging from elementary school through
university. Marczely (1992) notes that the right of schools to control student expression in school publications was upheld in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier while Bethel v. Fraser gave schools
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