Should It Be Required To Salute To The Nation's Flag?

Improved Essays
January 9, 1942, The Board of Education argued that the salute to the flag became “a regular part of the program of activities in public schools,” that all teachers and students “shall be required to participate in the salute honoring the Nation's Flag.” Being admitted into a hospital, country is denied by law until following the law doing as you’re told.The expelled child is illegally not present and may be moved forward against a person who commits crimes. His parents or guardian are possibly going to prosecution, and if convicted they are subject to fine not going beyond thirty days. The students don’t have an option of standing or sitting quietly, subject to rule 10. Failure to cooperate with the new requirement could put districts at

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Gregory Johnson Case

    • 1168 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Barry (1988) reminds the Court that this violation is content based. Boos denied a law that banned offensive signs five hundred feet from an embassy. The government cannot censor content it does not like. Johnson was arrested because the content of his expression was disliked. Texas does not wish to have the flag as a symbol of anything.…

    • 1168 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Citation: Croft vs. Governor of Texas, 562 F.3d 735 (5th Cir. 2009). Parties: David W. and Shannon K. Croft: Parents of minor Children - Plaintiffs / Appellants Governor of the State of Texas, Rick Perry - Defendant / Appellee Facts: In 2006, David and Shannon Croft, parents and friends of three minor children, filed a suit alleging the Texas Pledge and Minute of Silence Statute was unconstitutional. Each morning, Texas public school students are mandated to pledge allegiance to the United States and Texas state flag and observe a minute of silence. The Crofts sued Governor Rick Perry on behalf of their children who attended the Carrolton-Farmers Branch Independent School District. The Crofts argue the 2003 amended statute…

    • 1339 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tinker vs. Des Moines In 1965, a group of students including John and Mary Tinker decided to wear black armbands to school in protest of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. When the principals in the school district heard about their plan, fearing disruption due to the protest, they made a new rule prohibiting armbands at all the schools in the district. This caused some of the kids to change their minds about wearing the armbands, but not John and Mary.…

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Bellmont High School should not ban the confederate flag. The confederate flag is a remembrance of the confederate soldiers that died in battle. The confederate flag was only flown for 4 years, the 4 years of the civil war. However, the American flag was flown over a slave nation for 85 years.(http://www.rulen.com/myths/)…

    • 516 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School (1969), the court said that a student's freedom of expression in school must be protected unless it would seriously interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline.”(Oyez) In 1965 a couple of kids that attended Des Moines Community School wanted to “show their support for a truce in the Vietnam War.” The students would wear black armbands during the holiday and they would “fast on December 16 and New Year's Eve.”(Oyez) Because the students had uniforms, they wernt allowed to have anything else on their uniforms. “The principle learned about the students plans to wear the armbands and he had announced that students wearing the armbands would be asked to take it off and if they refused then they would be suspended.…

    • 1181 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The ruling, which occurred during the Vietnam War, granted the students the right to express their political opinions as long as they did not disrupt the classroom. Their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights could not be restricted based on a “general fear of disruption,” which is what the administration argued. According to Justice Fortas, who wrote the majority opinion, the protest was a “silent, passive expression of opinion.” Though a few hostile comments had been made to the students who were wearing armbands, there had been no threats or acts of violence. Also, there had not been any findings that the armbands would substantially interfere with school operations or more importantly, harm the rights of other students.…

    • 772 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Considering the ruling of Texas vs. Johnson, I think the court would rule against the banning of the Confederate flag. However times change and the court can change its mind. This ruling could also be applied to the controversy arising on many college campuses discussed in The Week we responded to last week. College students have responded to opinions stated by teachers or administrators with vigor taking their ‘first amendment rights’ to the next level. The professors and administrators are entitled to the opinions they presented.…

    • 1129 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Texas Pros And Cons

    • 300 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Two Texas Teens are sueing their school for the right to sit durng the Pledge of Allegiance in protest. The two teens stated that their teachers and aministators violated their constitutional right by puninshing and preventing them from sitting during the recite of the Pledge Of Allegiance. They also stated that the recieved horrible treatment for the teachers and administrators because of their protest. Both schools denied the accusations and stated that because of the law suit they could not discuss it. India Laundry and the teenager that chooses to go by M.O said that they were protesting because the nation failed to uphold the promise of the pledge.…

    • 300 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    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.…

    • 414 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Taking down the Confederate flag on government grounds isn’t the only issue surrounding the flag but also the banning of the flag in public spaces. Schools are battling the display of the flag on vehicles and articles of clothing. In the Virginia high school of Christiansburg more than 20 students were suspended after they refused to remove cloths that had the Confederate flag on it. There suspension came shortly after a new district policy banning any Confederate symbol from the school, rear windows of vehicles and on mini flagpoles on trucks in the parking lot. The frustrated students held a rally with their supporters outside the school asking them to repeal the new policy, saying that they wore the cloths not out of hate but as the marginalized group that believes the flag is Southern history.…

    • 1637 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Confederate Flag

    • 794 Words
    • 4 Pages

    “There is simply no benefit to people being allowed to wear it. No good will come from it, and it only has the potential for bad reactions,” a boy argued angrily over the Confederate flag apparel being worn by those around him on the website, debate.org. Many people in today's age are wearing Confederate Flag Apparel around their schools, deliberately ignoring the school policy. What they don’t know is how that is affecting the people around them. Confederate flag apparel should never be allowed in our schools for three main reasons; racism, heritage, and slavery.…

    • 794 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Violate The 1st Amendment

    • 163 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The school decision in this case does not violate the 1st amendment, because the purpose of this choice was to protect the affiliated students from possible violence and disturbances in the classroom. The five students were wearing American flag clothing on the school grounds, which included a shirt and a bandanna. The wearing of this clothing could fall under freedom of speech, because this could be seen as an act of expressing their patriotism or citizenship in the United States, but they did violate the school policy by wearing bandanas. There was also no evidence that the flag actually caused any violence or disruptive, but the purpose of the choice to ask students to remove the clothing, was to avoid this from happening. The school's interest…

    • 163 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Nonetheless, some regulations still stand, such as mandatory standardized testing in reading and math, although there is now flexibility pertaining to when or how the state administers the tests. Finally, the new law also does not require every school to…

    • 1134 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The First Amendment defines and protects the religious rights of all individuals based on the establishment and the free-exercise clauses written into the U.S. Constitution. Public schools are presented with the unique challenge of trying to balance the religious freedoms students’ are entitled, while simultaneously maintaining a separation of Church and State. Schools must take proactive steps to ensure educators understand the legal requirements mandated by the First Amendment. By establishing clear policies and training workshops, schools can ensure teachers are knowledgeable in managing religious expression. Although, these steps provide important guidelines, they may still fall short of eliminating all debates or avoiding controversy among the diverse student population.…

    • 730 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    If the case were to go to court I believe that the school district would win. Philip is a student who goes to Harrison High School. Philip was a suspended for singing the Star Spangled Banner. The school would win because Philip was causing a disturbance in the class and he was being disrespectful to Ms. Narwin.…

    • 445 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays