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W. Tresper Clarke High School is a high school in Westbury (technically in Salisbury) New York, USA. It is operated by the East Meadow Union Free School District, also known as the East Meadow School District. The school serves students living in Salisbury, or South Westbury; East Meadow; and Levittown, New York. Named after William Tresper Clarke, a former president of the East Meadow School Board, the school opened in 1957. ==History== W. Tresper Clarke High School opened in 1957, and was named in honor of William Tresper Clarke, a former president of the East Meadow School Board. The Class of 1959 was the first graduating class, while the Class of 1960 was the first graduating class to have spent all three years of high school at Clarke. The media spotlight was on the school in 1967 when Pete Seeger came to W. Tresper Clarke High School on March 8, 1967 to sing to an enthusiastic crowd of 1,100 inside the building, and 300 flag-waving protesters outside. The concert was a year late, but it was a victory against censorship. "Mr. Seeger is a highly controversial figure, and as such, injecting him into our community in East Meadow we thought would stir passions, create discord, () disharmony ...," the school board said in December 1965, when it canceled a scheduled Seeger appearance. The main question of controversy, the board said, was that on an earlier trip to the Soviet Union, Seeger had sung songs opposing the Vietnam War.〔(East Meadow Community Concerts Assn v. Board of Education of Union Free School Dist No 3, 49 Misc.2d 643, 268 N.Y.S.2d 221 (1966) )(citing "a clipping from the New York Times dated Monday November 25, 1965 containing the picture of the artist Pete Seeger and a news article dated in Moscow October 24, 1965 announcing that an American folk singer, Pete Seeger, sang a Viet Nam protest ballad that day before an auditorium filled with Moscow University students, and had issued the statement ‘I wanted to show students here the kind of songs we're singing on college campuses in the United States. It would be wrong to leave this one out’.").〕 Getting Seeger into the high school auditorium took court battles that went all the way to the State Court of Appeals. The state's highest court said that canceling an earlier invitation because of Seeger's controversial views violated both the state and federal Constitutions.〔Michael Hiltzik, ("How Pete Seeger (1919-2014) made my high school famous" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', January 28, 2014; (East Meadow Community Concerts Assn v. Board of Education of Union Free School Dist No 3, 19 NY2d 605, 224 NE2d 888 (1967). )〕 The Nassau chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief to the Court of Appeals, playing a key role in the legal battle. The high school was again brought into the media spotlight in January 2007 when the school's principal barred a deaf student, John Cave, from bringing a service dog to school. The school stated that its decision was motivated by concerns over student welfare, such as allergies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lidog0105,0,7516076.story?coll=ny-top-headlines )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lidog0109,0,7778224.story?coll=ny-top-headlines )〕 The student's parents responded in early February 2007 by filing a $150-million discrimination lawsuit against the East Meadow School District, claiming that school officials subjected the student to "bias, bigotry and prejudice".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-lidog095086667feb09,0,3335583.story )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「W. Tresper Clarke High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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