First Amendment Basics Summary

The Constitution and the Amendments are the basics of the US’s politics. However, sometimes, people, especially young people and teenagers, don’t have enough knowledge about it and so, they begin to abuse it as an excuse for any problem. Fortunately, in his “Why First Amendment still matters to students” article, Tony Mauro addressed this issue, but in a smaller scale, in schools and among students. To be more specific, according to Mauro, school officials often develop amnesia about the Tinker case, the case where a student was being violated of her rights by school officials, whenever a student deviates from some standard of behavior. Even though he had good intention when saying this, Mauro’s point of view was off target. The reason for …show more content…
In the article “First Amendment Basics”,a lot of students believed that their rights were being violated because they couldn’t dye their hair purple in school. Furthermore, Jacqueline Duty, who were being notified that she couldn’t wear the dress with the confederate flag on it on Prom day, believed that her rights were being violated because she couldn’t went to prom just because of her dress. In the end, to avoid the trials, school officials decided to give her some money as compensation. These evidences showed that when students don’t fully know about their rights, it harmed not just themselves, but school officials as well. The reasons for that are because first of all, schools have the right to set dress code, so, students must followed them when they are in school. Furthermore, students usually don’t have the privilege of using all of their rights to its potential, as a result, they have to do what they are told. Lastly, in the Duty case, school officials had already told her in advance that she couldn’t wear the dress, but she refused and continued to violate the school’s rules. So, morally, she was right, but in reality, she was wrong and school officials known that but they decided to give her some money to keep her reputation and pride. In short, sometimes, students’ ignorant sometimes forced school officials to forget the Tinker case to protect the students