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Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
The Court found that it was appropriate for the school to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive language.
Chief Justice Burger distinguished between political speech which the Court previously had protected in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) and the supposed sexual content of Fraser's message at the assembly.
Burger concluded that the First Amendment did not prohibit schools from prohibiting vulgar and lewd speech since such discourse was inconsistent with the "fundamental values of public school education."
The Court held that the First Amendment did not require schools to affirmatively promote particular types of student speech.
The Court held that schools must be able to set high standards for student speech, and that schools retained the right to refuse to sponsor speech that was "inconsistent with 'the shared values of a civilized social order," so long as their actions were "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns."