Where would you place limits on Americans' right to free expression? Please take the following anonymous survey:
Mural by Conor Harrington:
Where would you place limits on Americans' right to free expression? Please take the following anonymous survey:
Mural by Conor Harrington:
Reminder: Constitution Test tomorrow (Tuesday)
VoiceThread (not the slides below) is now available online:
Represented by the ACLU, the students and their families embarked on a four-year court battle that culminated in the landmark Supreme Court decision: Tinker v. Des Moines. On February 24, 1969, the Court ruled 7-2 that students do not “shed their constitutional
rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
The Court ruled that the First Amendment applied to public schools, and school officials could not censor student speech unless it disrupted the educational process. Because wearing a black armband was not disruptive, the Court held that the First Amendment
protected the right of students to wear one. [Adapted from a post by the ACLU.]
Read an article by Mary Beth Tinker about the case, including the connection to Burnside v. Byars, a Mississippi case that set the precedence for Tinker v. Des Moines.
Test on Tuesday. Need a copy of the US Constitution? Click here.
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