Shelley Evans-Marshall was a high school English teacher. She assigned Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 to her ninth graders. To explore the book’s theme of government censorship, she distributed a list compiled by the American Library Association of the “100 Most Frequently Challenged Books.” Evans-Marshall asked groups of students to select books from the list and to lead in-class debates about them. Two groups chose the book Heather Has Two Mommies. A parent complained about the book and the principal asked Evans-Marshall to tell the students to choose a different book. She complied, explaining to her class that “they were in a unique position to . . . use this experience as source material for their debate because they [had] . . . actually experienced censorship in preparing to debate censorship.” At a school board meeting, twenty-five or so parents complained about the curricular choices in the schools, including Siddhartha (another book assigned by Evans-Marshall) and the book-censorship assignment. The next day, the principal called a meeting of the English department and told Evans-Marshall that she was “on the hot seat.” Nearly 100 parents, as well as the local news media, attended the board’s next meeting. For over an hour, parents expressed concerns about books in the curriculum and in the school libraries, raising particular objections to the materials in Evans-Marshall’s classroom. Another incident involved student writing samples that Evans-Marshall shared with students who asked for additional guidance on assignments. Several of these writing samples dealt with sensitive themes, including a firsthand account of a rape. The principal indicated his displeasure with the materials she was using in her classroom and the themes of her in-class discussions and said that he “intended to rein it in.” After several more run-ins with the principal, he wrote a performance appraisal criticizing the Evans-Marshall’s attitude and demeanor as well as her “use of material that is pushing the limits of community standards.” A few months later, the school board voted unanimously not to renew the teacher’s contract. She sued, alleging a violation of her First Amendment speech rights. What should the court decide? Why?