Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

to be hired at a school where there is a positive school culture, natural collaboration, transparency among all stakeholders, and a common shared vision. A place where progressive thinking from staff and students are welcome, and school pride and academic performance is soaring. Unfortunately, many of schools do not encompass those characteristics on one campus. It often takes years to find an administrative leader, build relationships, and have a shared vision to take a school to the next level…

themselves to be braver facing a computer screen. Reports of students as young as 10 have committed suicide cased on what their peers have said about them on the internet. This is an ongoing problem in our society today and most people say that our schools should do something about it, but is it violating a students right to free speech or protecting the victim? In most cyber bullying court cases, the cyber bully will usually argue that they are exercising their rights to freedom of speech.…

High School in Minden, Nevada exchanged several instant messages using MySpace social media with his classmates from his home computer. Wynar bragged about having an arsenal of weapons and threatened to shoot and kill several classmates on the anniversary of the Columbine School Massacre. Wynar also bragged he would kill more students than those who died at Virginia Tech, which at the time was the deadliest school shooting on record. Several students reported the instant messages to school…

keeps it from being changed by state governments (Cornell Law School). All of the parts of the first amendment are censored in some way today to keep the people of this country protected. The origin of the…

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…

The debate over school uniforms are heard from students and parents alike, and reasons for why uniforms should not be required in schools are shared by many. Every day, millions of students spend around eight hours attending America’s schools. Imagine having to wake up every morning, roll out of bed, put on the same thing you wore the day before, and head off to school. Many students are forced to wear uniforms whether they like it or not. School uniforms are a restriction that is too much!…

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter”- George Washington, these words discoursed are just as valid today as when they were first spoken. In present time censorship obstructs our freedom of speech and disrupts our ability to create our own distinct voice. Currently the exact meaning indicates that censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any part of any book, film, and news that is considered obscene, politically…

“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…

and gained media exposure by suing school districts for alleged violations of civil rights and misappropriation of disciplinary actions imposed by school administrators and teachers. Based on these decisions, students’ rights of freedom and expression have remained a debatable issue and controversial topic of focus in schools.…

Ethics in Education Ethics are an important part of education. Throughout the history of education in the United States there has been a struggle to ensure ethical relations to all members of the educational community. It is difficult to ensure that all students receive equal access to education and services when the country was founded in wide reaching turmoil in which many believed that some did not have the same value or the same right to receive an equitable education. Throughout the EDAD…