VIRGIL v. SCHOOL BD. OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLA.

No. 88-3127.

862 F.2d 1517 (1989)

Monya G. VIRGIL, James Virgil, Claudia H. Johnson, Susan G. Davis, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, Silas Pittman as Superintendent of the Columbia County School System, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Jacobson, American Civil Liberties Union of Fla., Jacksonville, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Daniel C. Shaughnessy, John Schickel, Coker, Myers & Schickel, P.A., Jacksonville, Fla., for defendants-appellees.

Joseph Onek, Onek, Klein & Farr, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae, for People for the American Way.

Before TJOFLAT, ANDERSON and COX, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the question of whether the first amendment prevents a school board from removing a previously approved textbook from an elective high school class because of objections to the material's vulgarity and sexual explicitness. We conclude that a school board may, without contravening constitutional limits, take such action where, as here, its methods are "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." Accordingly, we...

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