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[Your Name] [Professor] [Course title] [Date] The U.S. Constitutional Law in Education Under the First Amendment, courts treat high school students different. The U.S court approved certiorari so that a decision can be made on if the First Amendment prohibits a school district from disciplining a student in high school that gave a lewd speech during a school assembly (Forsyth).The 26th of April 1983, a respondent, Matthew N. Fraser who was a high school student at Bethel High in Pierce, Washington, made a speech that nominated a student for an elective office. The speech referred to the candidate in a graphical, elaborate sexual metaphor and this led to the student`s suspension and his removal from a list of students that would deliver a graduation speech (Essex 1). The Issue Matthew Fraser, a high school senior at Bethel High School, delivered a speech nominating Jeff Kuhlman for Associated Student Body Vice President. The speech had sexual innuendos, without obscenity. The speech stated that: I know a man who is firm-he is firm in his pants. He`s firm in his shirt, his character is firm- but most of all, his belief in you the students of Bethel, is firm. Jeff Kuhlman is a man who takes his point and pounds it in. If necessary, he`ll take an issue and nail it to the wall. He doesn`t attack things in spurts- he drives hard, pushing and pushing until finally-he succeeds- Jeff is a man who will go to the very end-even the climax, for each and every one of you. So ple...