This means that the school cannot suppress certain students' point of view just because it seems like the “wrong” point of view. This supports the claim because it helps to give equality to student speech in school, which, in some cases, doubles the amount of opinions being heard. Another addition to the students rights, shown in the Tinker case, was that students' rights do not disappear upon entry to a school. When the majority made their statement, they said that “it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” (Unit 6 Slide, Majority Opinion). This helped to expand students' 1st Amendment freedom of speech rights because it showed that those rights still apply to all the students within the building just as much as they apply to the students outside the premises. This expanded students' 1st Amendment rights greatly because it gave students more time and places where they could freely express themselves without having to worry about consequences from the
This means that the school cannot suppress certain students' point of view just because it seems like the “wrong” point of view. This supports the claim because it helps to give equality to student speech in school, which, in some cases, doubles the amount of opinions being heard. Another addition to the students rights, shown in the Tinker case, was that students' rights do not disappear upon entry to a school. When the majority made their statement, they said that “it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” (Unit 6 Slide, Majority Opinion). This helped to expand students' 1st Amendment freedom of speech rights because it showed that those rights still apply to all the students within the building just as much as they apply to the students outside the premises. This expanded students' 1st Amendment rights greatly because it gave students more time and places where they could freely express themselves without having to worry about consequences from the