Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

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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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    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 armbands to their schools. John Tinker wore…

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    Des Moines is a clear interpretation of this. In December 16, 1965, three students, John Tinker, 15, Mary Beth Tinker, 13, and Christopher Eckhardt, 16, wore black armbands to school to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam war, The school suspended the students,but the guardians of the kids claim. The District Court ruled that the school had not violated the Constitution...The Tinker 's took the case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said ” While schools certainly…

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    of people say that every person in the united states have the freedom of speech but are afraid to use that right because they don’t want to get arrested. In these three cases I will tell you how these people used their freedom of speech. Barenblatt V. U.S. In the morning of june 28, 1954, Lloyd Barenblatt sat in the courtroom of the old house office building in Washington D.C. Earlier in the month, Barenblatt had been handed a subpoena to appear before the house UN-american activities…

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    several success court cases like Tinker vs. Des Moines, several amendments, and several successful civil disobedient heros and heroins. For example, Tinker vs Des Moines symbolically struck the government with great voice. Under the assumption as civil disobedience, the students who wore black armbands at school to show their perspective of avoiding the Vietnam War were banned from school and later recognized as a damper on silent protests violates freedoms in school zones which evolved under…

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    of speech are Tinker v Des Moines and Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier. Tinker was America’s first Supreme Court case defining the extent of students’ speech. This case ruled in favor of students, when the court decided that students have their freedom of speech. This freedom could be limited, however, if a school could reasonably think that a student’s speech would interfere with the school’s…

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    They could 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…

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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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    Tinker vs. Des Moines This court case took place in the December of 1965, in Des Moines, Iowa. A group of students at a local high school decided that to protest the Vietnam war, they would wear black armbands from December 16 until New Year’s at school. The principals at the high school learned of the protest, and established a new rule on December 14th. The rule stated that any student wearing a black armband would be asked to remove it, and anyone who failed to remove it would be suspended.…

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    Constitution only apply in certain situations? Is it a document in which one can pick and choose what to enforce? In the court case of 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…

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