This text provides a clear and concise view of current perspectives in school law and makes the all-important leap from theory to practice, with a focus on the day-to-day realities of school law. Subjects include student rights, teacher rights, tort action, power and authority, change, and conflict.
While the topics of corporal punishment, free speech, and church and state have been debated by lawyers for years, the law is ever changing to encompass new subjects involving handicapped students, AIDS, and more.
Teachers, to be sure, are not expected to be lawyers or to possess a mastery of the law. They are, however, able to obtain a fundamental knowledge of it, especially with the assistance of Law in Arkansas Public Schools.
This fundamental knowledge provides teachers with information that today rivals reading, writing, and arithmetic in importance. In this day and age, when students and parents sue schools and teachers, the best defense for teachers and administrators is simply to know the law.