Monthly Archives: December 1996

Another Costly Lesson For School Boards As Jury Vindicates Teacher

By |2019-03-07T23:17:47-05:00December 1st, 1996|Censorship News Articles|

High school teacher Cissy Lacks was awarded $750,000 by a federal court in a case against a suburban St. Louis school district. Lacks was fired by the Ferguson-Florissant Schools for failing to censor her 11th grade students' creative expression as part of a creative writing assignment in which she asked them to write as they speak. (A federal judge reinstated Lacks in August.)

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