Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

Bennett, Paul. "School Uniforms: Do Uniforms Make Schools Better - Or Something Else?". Educhatter 's Blog. N.p., 2013. Web. 12 Feb. 2016. EduChatter contains blog entries from educational consultants that specialize in “raising critical issues” and “tracking emerging trends.” It consists of viewpoints and informed opinions on matters relating to the state of Canadian K-12 education. Their posters tend to be very passionate about what they do, and full of ideas related to the educational reform…

derived from a battle for independence, and eventually, the American Revolution established liberty. Similarly, Martin Luther King Jr., prominent civil rights activist, and thousands of others led nonviolent protests to “create such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue” (3). As a result, civil rights activists on the thousands heroically demonstrated throughout the 1960s and achieved their goal with the passage of the Civil Rights…

Bullying has been around in the United States of America for quite some time. It started as a stereotypical thing such as a student taking a smaller students lunch money. The issue has now turned into students hating other students and causing serious problems in our society such as suicide and depression. Laws have been put in place to try and stop some of these cases where bullying is causing such serious outcome. Many people in this society wonder if authority, such as administrators and…

the University. The punishments consist of sensitivity training, suspension, forced apologies to students, and termination. Failure to submit to punishments will result in automatic termination. Professor Duane is charged by the school because he has violated the school policy by leading a discussion on sexual assault without providing an appropriate trigger warning. QUESTION PRESENTED Are the words used by professor Duane’s discussion of sexual assault creating a clear and present danger? Was…

plague affecting schools across America is the dress code, and dress codes should be removed from American Schools because they restrict personal freedom, including symbolic speech; they disrupt class; they are more effort than they’re worth to enforce; and they send mixed messages about the body. First, dress codes restrict personal freedom. A dress code by definition limits clothes that an individual can wear to school. Sometimes, it is reasonable; you shouldn’t wear a bikini to school, but…

wallet. Yes, freedom of expression is a right that should be upheld, but in schools a uniform dress code should be enforced due to the cost efficiency for the student’s families as well as the sense of community that having a uniform brings to a school. Many students who must follow their schools uniform dress…