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    University of San Diego School of Law Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues and referred to as a “landmark case” by Thomas L. Tedford and Dale A. Herbeck. The case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District 393 U.S. 503 (1969) is a case in which Three public school students; John Tinker, Christopher Eckhardt and Mary Beth Tinker wore black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War. The school board…

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    Imagine losing the ability to say a common vocabulary during school, a place where most spend a large amount of time in. Imagine suspensions for using the now forbidden word because a pledge that all students must abide by was written and given to each and every student. This idea of a pledge that takes away from students and even teachers should not be utilized in schools. Since the creation of the Bill of Rights in 1791, the First Amendment--the Freedom of Speech--has been in place to protect…

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    Television in the fifties and sixties depicted the ideal life for families in America. This life however was far from what most actual families endured. “Our most powerful visions of traditional families derive from images that are still delivered to our homes in countless reruns of 1950s television sit-coms” (Cootz 1992) . Leave it to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show were the pinnacle of television sit-coms of the time. They both had the stereotypical all American family with hardworking…

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    The Tinker v. Des Moines case deals with the persecution of a group of students for wearing black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War. The group of students, siblings John F. and Mary Beth Tinker, and friend Christopher Eckhardt, were suspended for wearing the war protesting armbands after they refused to take them off. School officials argued that the students wearing the armbands may result in riots, due to the division of peoples’ opinions on the Vietnam War. The case eventually…

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    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. They wore the armbands to school, and when they were asked to remove them, they refused. They were suspended until they could return to…

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    during the holiday season. The schools of Des Moines became aware of this plan and adopted a policy that would require any student wearing an armband to school to remove their armband. Failure to do so would be met with a suspension until return without the armband. On December 16th, Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt wore black armbands to their schools. John Tinker wore his armband the next day. All three students were sent home and suspended from school until they would return…

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    use facts or even do something emotional, and they chose to use facts. By using facts, that just made what the author believes be even more real and true to the reader. One example of this is, “In the landmark 1969 case Tinker vs. Des Moines School District, the court upheld the right of students to attend classes wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. But an Aug. 5 decision by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia involved a less solemn form of expressive adornment:…

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    stop at the school front door. Students have a right to freedom of speech, covered by the first amendment. The First Amendment protects students’ freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to peaceable assemble, and right to file grievance against the Unite States (U.S. Constitution, 2010.) Students are able to incorporate religion into essays and works of art, as long as the standards of the project is met (Alliance Defending Freedom, 2014.) The limitation is when the school forces…

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    with a few students in high school and middle school expressing their 1st amendment rights. In December of 1965, a meeting at Christopher Eckhardt’s home was held in membrane to show their support for the truce of the Vietnam War. The meeting consisted of a group of friends agreeing to wear armbands to show their support for the truce. These children were wearing black armbands, and fasting to peacefully protest and show their support for the surrender. However, the school had caught onto this,…

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    In the case of Tinker V. Des Moines, it shows how the supreme court did not want students to be allowed to publicly express themselves or their opinions. Also how the teachers should have freedom of speech in school or out of school. The argument that is stronger for me is for the students and the teachers to be allowed to have freedom of speech and should always be protected. To begin with, at the public school in Tinker V. Des Moines, the students and the teachers organized a small protest…

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