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Oct. 29, 2018
The right to an education in America
Key Supreme Court decisions involving students’ constitutional rights are thoroughly but briskly covered in Justin Driver’s “The Schoolhouse Gate.”
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
Classrooms and their adjacent playgrounds are the great formative laboratories of a nation's future. Thomas Mann, referring to the First World War and in his courageous anti-Nazi broadcasts, "Are You Listening, Germany?", said "All the troubles of the Twentieth Century can be traced to the sternness of the Prussian schoolmaster." Overstated, perhaps, but the German gymnasiums certainly celebrated the perceived exceptionalism that led to Germanic military conquest, not...
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