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Superintendent frames student protest response around free-speech precedents; parent urges protection of teachers' speech
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Eberslacher told the Hatboro-Horsham board the district balanced student First Amendment rights with school safety after a student-led lunch protest; a parent urged the board to protect educators' off-duty speech rights.
At the Hatboro-Horsham School District board meeting on Feb. 23, Superintendent Dr. Eberslacher described the district’s response to a student-led lunch-period protest over recent immigration-enforcement actions, framing the response around constitutional precedent and school-safety considerations.
"Students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," Dr. Eberslacher said, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1969 decision in Tinker v. Des Moines and later cases as the legal framework the district uses to…
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