| Uniform title | Principals teaching the law |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Liability for student injuries: protecting your teachers, your students, and your school -- Student freedom of expression -- Special education -- Discipline: student due process and search and seizure -- Student harassment and bullying -- Teacher freedom of expression -- Teacher out-of-school conduct -- Religion -- Student records: the family educational rights and privacy act -- Abuse and neglect. |
| Abstract |
"This book gives principals the tools they need to avoid lawsuits by teaching their staff the information they need to practice preventive law. Lawsuits often begin when teachers unintentionally violate students' rights such as searching a student's cell phone without reasonable suspicion or failing to follow a student's Individualized Education Program. These violations do not occur because teachers intend to break the law. They occurred because the vast majority of teachers are not required to learn about the rights and responsibilities of students and teachers in their teacher preparation programs. As a result, most teachers get their legal information from the 'law school' of the teachers' lounge--that is, from colleagues who are similarly uninformed and misinformed. Instead, what teachers want and need is an in-service program that will provide them with a basic understanding of school law. But most busy principals don't have the time, knowledge and resources to provide such a program for their staff. This book...provides principals with the resources and lesson plans they need to incorporate school law into their professional development program. As a result, their teachers will get their information about school law from a reliable source - not from the rumors, fears and myths of the teachers' lounge. By empowering their teachers with legal knowledge, principals and teachers will avoid lawsuits by becoming partners in the practice of preventive law."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other edition issued | Revision of: Schimmel, David. Principals teaching the law. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, 2010 9781412972239 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Schimmel, David. Principals avoiding lawsuits. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 9781475831207 |
| LCCN | 2016049785 |
| ISBN | 9781475831184 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1475831188 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 9781475831191 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1475831196 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
