Des Moines

Students do not "shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate," the Supreme Court famously said that in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. However, in the digital age, the formal request of Tinker has been very complicated by the fact that the schoolhouse gate is no longer restricted in certain categories to a brick-and-mortar structure, but may it now be a student 's home computer, tablet, or cell phone. In recent years, the number of social media and…

In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969) the Supreme Court Stated that, “In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State chooses to communicate. They may not be confined to the expression of those…

In December of 1965, Mary Beth Tinker, her brother John Tinker, and their friend Christopher Eckhardt, students of Des Moines public schools, decided they were going to wear black armbands to school for a period of time in protest of the Vietnam war. The school board found out about the students’ plan to protest, and decided to put a ban on the wearing of black armbands on school property. If any student came to school wearing an armband, they would be suspended. The three students decided to…

The 1st Amendment guarantees freedom of speech. The Court, in Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969, made clear that "students do not abandon their Constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate." Common speech forms are changing, and school authorities are often a generation or two behind these changes. Schools are also entitled to their…

In December of 1965, a group of adults and students in Des Moines planned to protest the War in Vietnam and show support for a truce by wearing black armbands 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…

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. They wore the armbands to school,…

Tinker v. Des Moines Mr. J. Fortas and Mr. J. Black have very different outlooks on the topic of freedom of speech and whether a few students could or could not be protected by this law. In December 1965, a group of students in Des Moines held a meeting in the home of 16-year-old Christopher Eckhardt to plan a peaceful, silent, protest on their support for a truce in the Vietnam war. They decided to wear black armbands and to fast on December 16 and New Year’s Eve. The principals of the Des…

disrupting the peace of the school. In one of the most controversial cases, the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines case involved students wearing black armbands that protested the Vietnam War; the school tried suspending them, but the court ruled that the speech in question must “‘materially and substantially disrupt the work and discipline of the school’” (Clarence Thomas is Right). If the students a Des Moines were rioting and were attacking other students, then they would not have stood a chance in…

quietly or protest against authority. A few cases that were decided upon based on the First Amendment are as follows: New York Times v. Sullivan, Morse v. Frederick, Bethel School District v. Fraser and Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. The Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District case establised the “disruption test” that many court cases that followed adhered to. The “disruption test” meant that an act of expression should be permitted within a…

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…