Des Moines

My Thanksgiving vacation could have been more enjoyable. I did very much working over break. Starting from the beginning, on Tuesday after they released us from school, I drove all the way down to Des Moines because I had to work. I am employed at the Des Moines Buccaneers Hockey Arena. My sister Kaylee and I work in the Pirates cove. Buccaneer clothing can be purchased in the cove. It’s a USHL hockey league that boys from ages 16 to 19 play in for scholarships to colleges they have signed to.…

Teenagers victimize themselves and try to get out of situations all the time, not thinking about what could happen or any ripple effects. In articles like Tinker v des moines, a cheerleaders vulgar message, and high school junior sues school districts, it expresses how stupid teenagers can be and how they think their opinion is better than the adults. And even though people might say it wouldn’t be the students fault or the teachers were being over strict, it was really the students in general.…

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…

The Des Moines Water Works lawsuit might hit a little closer to home for some people here at Dordt College, especially for those who are involved in agriculture in the state of Iowa. In March 2015, the Water Works Company in Des Moines filed a lawsuit against three drainage districts north of the city on the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers. They claim that there are massive problems with nitrates in Des Moines drinking water supplies. The company seems to believe that the nitrates have come from…

The Tinker v. Des Moines supreme court case was very tricky but at the end the result of it was that the school didn’t have the right to suspend the two kids. There are a couple of reasons why. They were exercising their rights, they also didn't cause distractions, and their argument was weak First of all, The Des Moines didn't have the right to suspend the students that wore the armbands. The argument that the dissent had was and should have been strong enough to win the jury’s anonymous vote.…

In the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, the Tinkers were suing because they believed that their school violated their first amendment right to freedom of speech. This case was decided in 1969 under the Warren Court with a 7-2 decision. Three of the Tinker children and one of their friends wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. Just before the children did this, the school made a rule against protesting the Vietnam War. When the children went to school with the…

The case of “Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent Community School District 393 U.S 503” took place in 1969, was argued November 12, 1968, and with the decided date being February 24, 1969. The petitioners were Christopher and Mary Beth Eckhardt, and John Tinker. In 1965, the children's ages were as follows: Mary Beth was 13 years old, John was 15, and Christopher, the oldest, was 16. John and Christopher were high school students, and Mary was a junior high student. The case was argued because of…

“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…

cases Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) and Miranda v. Arizona (1966) decided on during the Warren Court era, I have observed significant disagreements regarding the interpretation of American freedoms and the proper approach to law enforcement amongst the majority and dissenting Justices of the time. It was held by the majority ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines that kids do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. Tinker v Des Moines: "The…

When a person tells someone that they are going to kill someone or thing, they have broken the law, but in some cases it can be used right. In the case, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District three kids wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. The school officials ask for the students to take the bands of, but the kids said no. The case went to the Supreme Court and the court went with the kids in the…