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Arizona Law SB 1467 Would Make It Illegal to Teach Law, History, or Literature « Student Activism

Arizona Law SB 1467 Would Make It Illegal to Teach Law, History, or Literature « Student Activism:

Arizona Law SB 1467 Would Make It Illegal to Teach Law, History, or Literature

Just when you thought the Arizona legislature was out of bad ideas.

SB 1467, newly introduced in the Arizona State Senate, would force schools and universities to suspend, fine, and ultimately fire any teacher or professor who “engage[d] in speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the federal communications commission concerning obscenity, indecency and profanity if that speech or conduct were broadcast on television or radio.”

For the first offense, you’d get a one-week suspension without pay. For the second offense, two weeks. For the third, a pink slip.

As Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education notes, this law would not only block the