Timothy Kirkland v. Northside Independent School District

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the first amendment does not vest public school teachers with authority to disregard established administrative mechanisms for approval of reading lists”
• reasoning that teacher’s choice of curriculum does not qualify as “matter of public concern”
• “If the nature of the speech is purely private, such as a dispute over one employee’s job performance. . .”
• a statement is \of public concern\ and protected if \the words or conduct are con- 9 veyed by the teacher in his role as a citizen and not in his role as an employee\
• “If the nature of the speech is purely private ... judicial inquiry then comes to an end, and the question of whether the employee’s speech was a substantial or motivating factor in the decision not to rehire him need not even be reached.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).