In real life, I'm inclined to agree with the resolution. On the other hand, this is the Debate Club forum, so I hope no one minds if I disregard personal belief and play the devil's advocate just for the mental exercise...
Now, it's true that here and there you do get some pretty xenophobic communities, and they're the ones that tend to have pretty radical views. But on the other hand you have to admit that academic freedom does allow for some pretty flaky teachers to teach some weird stuff, and that there's technicalli nothing wrong with a teacher, under the affirmative position, telling kids that homosexuality causes AIDS, or something similarly untrue. And that's really just as bad as having a xenophobic, stagnated community.
That said, let's ditch the extreme examples, because on either side we can say that there are going to be some pretty negative consequences in the really far-flung cases. The more moderate ones, though, we can weigh a bit more fairly. Now, I'm no law student, but my inclanation would be to say that community standards would generally be represented in the local and to a lesser degree state school boards, and that there's a Constitutional obligation to heed those wishes as follows:
The 10th Amendment delegates to the states powers not specifically granted the national government or denied the states by the Constitution. State constitutions in every state to some degree grant the regulation of academic standards, procedures, curricula, etc. to the state school board, who is also granted the right to delegate these to the local boards. If the local boards do in fact represent community standards, then, I have to say that there's a constitutional obligation to say community standards ought to be valued above academic freedom...either that, or argue that the Constitution isn't really an accurate judge of the value of something.
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