Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

the wrong place and time. From what I can see she is disrupting the normal class operations. This is within the grounds of Insubordination if this continues. In the court case of Connick v. Myers says that freedom of expression is not protected when an employee speaks about matters of personal interest. Connick v. Myers 461 U.S. 138 (1983) She clearly speaks for her personal interest because whenever she gets a chance she speaks about animal rights. The implications for teacher is that she gets…

what to wear to school in the morning? Many of the complaints from students affected by these policies that I’ve witnessed personally have been in regard to the weather (e.g.: shorts and tank tops) or the comfort level of the offending garments (leggings and yoga pants) and I began to wonder what the effect of adults dictating appropriate expressions of gender and sexuality may be on young women. Does this ubiquitous sexualization…

taking action in school property and during school hours or events. For example, in the state case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, two students decided to wear black armbands to express their encouragement to the agreement made during the Vietnam War. The school indicated them to remove the armbands but they denied. In consequence, the students got suspended. The school 's reason was because they didn 't want this act to disrupt the learning process in school. The…

The First Amendment forbids the abridgment only of "speech," but it 's been long recognized by the supreme court that its protection does not end at the spoken or written word. The question in the case of Professor Duane will be whether a particular conduct possesses sufficient communicative elements to bring the First Amendment into play, meaning, is there an intent to convey a particularized message with a likelihood that the message would be understood by those who view it. The argument could…

INTRODUCTION The on students wearing school uniforms does not bring or come to an end cease , students wearing school uniforms has become an endless debate, even though school uniforms are becoming a popular trend, students and parent do not agree with the policy enforcing school uniforms stating that school uniforms take away the student's right of self-expression ¶1School uniforms limit student’s freedom of expression. Forcing students to wear school uniform limits students’. Teenagers…

On January 23, 2002 a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, that goes by the name Joseph Frederick, was excused from his classes, with the other students, to watch the Olympic Torch pass by in his town of Juneau, Alaska. Him and his friends went across the street and waited for the TV cameras to start rolling to unravel a banner that they made that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”. The principal, Deborah Morse, soon saw the banner and ran across the street to intercept their act. Principle Morse says he…

The high school already had about 30 clubs, including a chess club and a scuba-diving club. The principal denied the student's request, telling her that a religious club would be illegal in a public school. The year before, in 1984, Congress passed the Equal Access Act which required public schools to allow religious and political clubs if other clubs were allowed. The student challenged the decision not…

School uniforms are supposed to help raise attendance and other aspects of school, however research has found that it can have the exact opposite effect. For years there have been debates on school uniforms. Some say that kids need the rigorous structure in their life. Others say that not giving the ability to make the decisions now will make them unable to make decisions later. This debate has been so widely fought over that it’s even been brought to the attention of the federal court in the…

occasional periods of calm throughout the country that shone through the overcast cloud of the 1960s. Nixon’s claims that his would be a “reforming administration” lent itself to the many new changes that Nixon brought onto the government, including de-politicizing the Post Office and setting up a minimum income for families. Yet the most vocal element of the Nixon administration was not Nixon or the laws he had passed. The “center of attention” was instead Nixon’s Vice President, Spiro Agnew.…

making it law rather than school board policy, we are adding an extra layer of emphasis on how important it is to protect our children at all times” (Billetteri). Also, this article speaks about violating constitutional rights with the laws that have been made against cyberbullying. In Thomas Billiterri’s “Cyberbullying”, he speaks about the laws that are set for bullying, whether or not they are unconstitutional, and can schools regulate what happens outside of the school…