2.Briefly summarize your case and include the Constitutional issue faced by the court:
In 1983, East Hazelwood Highschool had a class called the Journalism II Class and of that class were a few students who were writing for the school newspaper. They dicussed issues that disturbed Robert Reynolds- the principal of Hazelwood High- and he took out those two pages that had those articles. The articles that disturbed Reynolds were on the following topics: Teen Pregnancy, and Parents Divorce. When Reynolds ripped out those two articles of the newspaper and then handed the newspaper to the other fellow students of the High school, the students believed that the principal violated their rights. However, Hazelwood believed that Reynolds was simply trying to protect the students and the school by not releasing the articles that he found disturbing or offensive.
3.What was the decision made by the real Supreme Court (not our simulated court) and what was their reasoning?
The decision made by the real Supreme Court was that Hazelwood was right in the case of Hazelwood vs.…show more content… I see why Hazelwood had won the case, but I think that some things that occured during the case was overlooked. Although I see where Hazelwood is coming from, and how the school believes that Reynolds was trying to proetct the minds of the other students and the influence of the school, I still believe that the students rights were violated. Reynolds claimed that there was not enough time to ask the students to change the articles, if he didn't want those articles in the school newspaper, he should have established rules or certain requirements about what to put in the newspaper; instead he ripped out the articles who the students worked very hard on. I still think the principal should have set rules about not writing along the lines of those topics, so that the students would not have had to write those articles, just to have them get ripped out in the
