O'Connor v. Sobol
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mercure, J.
Petitioner, a tenured high school social studies teacher employed by respondent Brentwood Union Free School District (hereinafter Brentwood), taught a 12th grade "Participation in Government” class. As part of a classroom debate on censorship in school libraries, petitioner distributed to the entire class a sexually explicit article entitled "Better Orgasms”. One of the students had given petitioner the article, found in a magazine in the library of the Brentwood North Junior High School, as evidence to support the procensorship argument. Following a meeting to…
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