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  • Essay / Board Of Education V Pico Summary - 581

    Therefore, the respondents took the matter to court (Island Trees…). The court's decision, by 5 votes to 4, was as follows: "The First Amendment limits the power of local or school boards to remove library books from middle and high schools" (Island Trees...). The court also stated that the Board of Education “should not intervene in “the day-to-day operations of school systems” unless “fundamental constitutional values” are “strongly implicated” (quoted in Board of Education, Island). The dissent consisted of Burger, Powell, Rehnquist, and O'Connor; the competition consisted of Blackmun and White (Island Trees…). Competition concerns were based on the purpose of restricting books (Board of Education v…). The majority was composed of Brennan, Marshall and Stevens (Board of Education, Island…). The majority maintained that “the student learns that a library is a place to test or develop the ideas presented to him, in or out of the classroom” (quoted in Board of Education, Island…). The minority countered this argument when the school board declared: "it is our duty, our moral obligation, to protect the children of our school from this moral danger as surely as from physical and medical dangers" (quoted in Board of