April 23, 2008
Sullivan, his parents, and Walnut's principal have been invited to attend a recognition luncheon in Lincoln on Monday, May 5. One student essay contest winner will be selected in a drawing to receive the McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Scholarship, valued at $2,300, to attend the National Student Leadership Conference on a major university campus this summer. Les Westover is Sullivan's American studies teacher at Walnut.
After students are recognized at the May 5 luncheon, they and their guests will have the opportunity to listen to a panel of Nebraska appellate court judges, including Chief Justice Michael Heavican.
Student essayists were asked to address a question related to First Amendment Rights, specifically about free speech.
Nebraska students in seventh grade through 12th grade are eligible to enter the Law Day Essay Contest. Winners are selected from each grade level.
Students were asked to address the following situation in their essays:
"A Nebraska (middle or high) school has a 50 percent population of students whose first language is not English. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raid a local factory and arrest dozens of workers who are in the USA allegedly illegally. A group of students at the school asks for and is granted permission to organize a school assembly to protest the arrests and support the workers' families. A student appears at the assembly with a sign that reads 'Illegals -- Who Needs 'em?' Student rally organizers take offense at the sign and ask the principal to order the sign taken down. Principal agrees and has the sign taken down. Principal gives the student who created and put up the sign a one-day in-school suspension. The student files a lawsuit alleging that the principal's actions violate the student's right of free speech. In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Morse v. Frederick, how would you rule and what arguments would you use to support your position, if you were a Supreme Court Justice in this case?"
For more information, contact: Les Westover, American studies teacher, Walnut Middle School, 1600 N. Custer Ave., (308) 385-5990, lwestove@gips.org
Walnut Middle School student wins Nebraska Law Day Essay Contest
Patrick Sullivan, an eighth-grade student at Walnut Middle School, has won the eighth-grade division of the ninth annual Law Day Essay Contest, sponsored by the Nebraska Bar Foundation and the Nebraska Supreme Court.Sullivan, his parents, and Walnut's principal have been invited to attend a recognition luncheon in Lincoln on Monday, May 5. One student essay contest winner will be selected in a drawing to receive the McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Scholarship, valued at $2,300, to attend the National Student Leadership Conference on a major university campus this summer. Les Westover is Sullivan's American studies teacher at Walnut.
After students are recognized at the May 5 luncheon, they and their guests will have the opportunity to listen to a panel of Nebraska appellate court judges, including Chief Justice Michael Heavican.
Student essayists were asked to address a question related to First Amendment Rights, specifically about free speech.
Nebraska students in seventh grade through 12th grade are eligible to enter the Law Day Essay Contest. Winners are selected from each grade level.
Students were asked to address the following situation in their essays:
"A Nebraska (middle or high) school has a 50 percent population of students whose first language is not English. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raid a local factory and arrest dozens of workers who are in the USA allegedly illegally. A group of students at the school asks for and is granted permission to organize a school assembly to protest the arrests and support the workers' families. A student appears at the assembly with a sign that reads 'Illegals -- Who Needs 'em?' Student rally organizers take offense at the sign and ask the principal to order the sign taken down. Principal agrees and has the sign taken down. Principal gives the student who created and put up the sign a one-day in-school suspension. The student files a lawsuit alleging that the principal's actions violate the student's right of free speech. In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Morse v. Frederick, how would you rule and what arguments would you use to support your position, if you were a Supreme Court Justice in this case?"
For more information, contact: Les Westover, American studies teacher, Walnut Middle School, 1600 N. Custer Ave., (308) 385-5990, lwestove@gips.org
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