?When a teacher teaches, the school system does not regulate that speech as much as it hires that speech. Expression is a teacher's stock in trade, the commodity she sells to her employer in exchange for a salary. And if it is the school board that hires that speech, it can surely regulate the content of what is or is not expressed, what is expressed in other words on its behalf.''
Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
?Court: No Teacher Speech Rights on Curriculum,? The School Law Blog
$60,000
The amount controlled by some principals working in schools with multimillion dollar budgets.
?Paging Principal Skinner: Evaluating School Leaders,? Time Magazine