Teacher and Student Speech Rights

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Clarke, Paul and Robyn Trask, “Teachers' Freedom of Expression: A Shifting Landscape - Part Two - Curricular Speech to Students and Recent Developments”, Education & Law Journal 23 (2014): 85-120.

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Dewey, John. Democracy and Education. New York: Macmillan, 1916.

MacKay, A. Wayne, Lyle Sutherland and Kimberley D. Pochini, Teachers and the Law: Diverse Roles and New Challenges. Third Edition. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2013.

Maxwell, Bruce, Kevin McDonough, and David I. Waddington, “Broaching the subject: Developing law-based principles for teacher free speech in the classroom,” Teaching and Teacher 70 (2018): 196-203

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McLaughlin, Danielle. "Should Teachers Wear Their Politics On Their Sleeves?" Huffington Post. May 2, 2013.

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Newman, Anne. “All Together Now: Some Egalitarian Concerns about Deliberation and Education Policy Making,” Theory and Research in Education 7 (2009):65-87.

Ross, Catherine J. "Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students’ First Amendment Rights." Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Schroeder, Mark. “Keeping the ‘Free’ in Teacher Speech Rights: Protecting Teachers and their Use of Social Media to Communicate with Students Beyond the Schoolhouse Gates”, Richmond Journal of Law & Technology 19 (2013): 1-128.

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Waddington, David. “A Right to Speak Out: The Morin Case and its Implications for Teachers’ Free Expression,” Interchange 42(2011): 59-80.

Zuker, Marvin A., Kim Redmond, Rosemary Gannon, and Joe Jamieson, An Educator's Guide to the Law and the Ontario College of Teachers. Toronto: Canadian Law Book, 2013.

Why I will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X

The Guardian’s decision earlier this week to stop posting on X finally prompted me to take the same step, one I have been contemplating for some time. Whereas the decision of the Guardian, which has 27-million followers, is consequential, my decision (with my 1,018 followers) is not. Still, for me, it is important to dissociate myself from what Musk has made of X.

A concept of peaceful assembly under s.2(c) of the Charter

Courtesy of the Rouleau Commission I developed a late-onset interest in freedom of peaceful assembly (FPA) and s.2(c) of the Charter. Since then it has been an ongoing concern to me that in more than forty years s.2(c) has not received an authoritative interpretation, much less been considered or discussed in any depth by the Supreme Court of Canada.

What if Charter Values Mattered?

Universities have property rights. Are they entitled, as a consequence, to exclude others at will? Are property rights, especially those exercised by public institutions like universities, different from homeowners or shop owners?