This article examines an education policy matter that involves homophobic speech in public schools. Using legal research methods, two federal circuit court opinions that have examined the tension surrounding anti-LGBTQ student expression are analyzed. This legal analysis provides non-lawyers some insight into the current realities of student…

Two Supreme Court cases are analyzed with reference to lower court decisions and their implications: Pickering v. Board of Education, which concerned teachers' expression outside the school, and Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, which involved students' expression inside the classroom. (JT)