The following excerpt is from CA. Teachers Assoc v. State Bd. of Education, 271 F.3d 1141 (9th Cir. 2001):
"First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 506 (1969). In light of the special characteristics
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