First Amendment In Public School

Intro- about 10 ten years ago, in the year 1951,the New York Board of Regents approved a “Quote” “nondenominational prayer”. It was 22 words long and The blandest of invocations read as follows: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and beg Thy blessings upon us, our teachers, and our country." voluntary prayer for recitation at the start of each school day. A group of parent in New Hyde Park, New York Steven Engel was a parent in New Hyde Park, New York. He and a group of other parents objected to the daily speaking of the prayer, even though it was voluntary, at the start of each school day. Steven Engel and his group of supporting parents sued William Vitale, the president of the local school board. The parents reasoning was that this optional prayer didn’t align with the views of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The 1st amendment says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The establishment clause states quote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Originally, the Establishment Clause was only added to the Constitution to keep the federal government from establishing a national religion.

The parents argued this was a violation of the part of the Constitution that stated the, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". Page 370 U. S. 423/http://oyez.org/cases/1960-1969 The decision in the case was six votes to one ruling in favor of the parents and taking the prayer out of public school ceremonies. Even though the prayer was nondenominational and was voluntary. It still did not save it from being unconstitutional. The court ruled by providing the prayer, New York officially approved religion. This was the first of many cases that has taken religious

The first amendment is pretty self explanatory to most people. It states that congress, or the government, should not make any law in respect to a certain religion. The people should be able to practice whatever religion they would desire. A state law in in New York proved to be in violation of the first amendment. In the New York Public school system, public schools started the day out with having students recite the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer in which everyone basically acknowledged their relying on God. When this was brought into the courtroom, the supreme court agreed. The government should not be sponsoring such activities in the school system. This law violated the first amendment and so a case was opened in court on behalf of

They stated that religion unifies many people and puts faith into America. The State believed that the prayer would help bring out the spiritual side of children. The parents argued that the prayer quite simply violated the first amendment, the separation of church and state and requires that the government stay out of the business of prescribing religious activities of any kind. They argued that because not all students shared the same religious beliefs, the public schools should not be a place to preach religion, and believed that religious freedom of the students was being corrupted by providing time during school for prayer. The State rebutted that the prayer was completely optional, therefore was constitutional; if the prayer was against a child’s religion, or if they simply did not want to they did not have to take part in the prayer. A case very similar to this one took place rather recently. An excerpt from the pledge of allegiance states “one nation, under God.” A parent of a child attending pleaded that having said words in the pledge of allegiance is in violation of the Establishment Clause, and took it to the Supreme Court, this is the case of Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. The Court's decision was that the excerpt did not violate the constitution because it is a symbol of our heritage and it is a

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution founded the concrete belief that government and faith-based institutions must and will remain separate from one another. This section of the first amendment disavows the U.S. government to establish or sanction any system of organized faiths or religions upon the people or to outlaw or disgrace any systems of organized faiths as well. But the line discerning the legitimacy of a faith and the true extent of the government's power over faith-based organizations has only remained to become muddled over the past 240 years of its establishment. Over the years, the ideology and true intent of the founding fathers had remained in question, where some believe the amendment addresses to the general

In recent years the First amendment or the freedom of speech freedom of religion and freedom of the press has been challenged to the Supreme court. The first amendment was ratified December 15, 1791. In recent cases dating back to the year 2000 there has been a variety of cases that have challenged this with school related cases to go to the supreme court. All of the cases which deal with schools allegedly breaking a group or a students first amendment rights. And so in the text below it has specific details and cases on which support the idea of which is how the first amendment affects people in school.

As the First Amendment protects the freedom of speech to all Americans, there needs to be some sort of limit on when students go overboard. There are many different types of speech in which it can cause disruptions in the classroom when teachers and students state their own opinions that don’t always go with what the others agree with. Things such as the place of where they speak these things are affective to whether their claims are legal or illegal on any school campus. When students cause a disruption, even across the street from a school supervised event while promoting illegal drug use like Joseph Frederick did, it needs to be stopped as soon as possible whether it goes against the freedom of a student's speech or not.

The First Amendment gives the citizens of the United States their most important rights: the right to freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, and the freedom of assembly. Over time these rights have worked themselves into the everyday lives of United States citizens. However, there are still places where our First Amendment rights may be compromised. In the school system, finding a balance of respect and freedom of speech and press is as difficult as learning out to tightrope walk. One wrong step and you could be compromising the learning environment of the entire student body.

Religious, Gays, and activities in school are for people who have different feelings/ different ways that things appeal to them. They associate with people who like the same thing as them. How would it make others feel about it? But in some schools in this country, aren’t allowed to be in a school with a different religion, because they must be that religion of that school or program that they attend to. First Amendment in school it is necessary because student clubs can be inappropriate, they may cause violence, and uncomfortableness. A school cannot deny equal access or discriminate against a students club based on their content. Students may also choose their own religion and leaders. Students may not want to be sociated with children who are gay or a religion. Violence could be added to if someone is being picked on because of who they are. Students may be uncomfortable discussing sexual orientation and how all students need to accept each other, whether gay or not.

Growing up in public schools, I remember my 2 grade teacher Ms. Rosa will always tell us “Siempre tiene una voz, nunca se dejan que alguien le digan que aser, es nuestro derecho como gente que viven en los Estados Unidos. ” I can safely say that the I learn of the first amendment, through my early school path,I always said what I felt and never feared of being silenced. When I heard about the Tucson Unified school district situation, I felt that it was a straight fuck you to our rights. When a state decides to take action against our own history and tells us what we can or can’t learn is a violation of our first right. The first Amendment should be shown at its maximum in public schools, since limiting what type of books to read is creating a iron wall in our public schools. When I say Iron wall, it reminds me on how the state is trying to create a concentration camp with our education, limiting the things we can learn. Additionally, I feel that teachers should have the right to speak out on what really happen to our ancestors

Today we learned about the legal rights of student bloggers. Public School Students have the First Amendment rights, and according to the Supreme Court, public school students don't "shed their constitutional right to freedom of speech or expression at the school gate." People who go to private school also have the First Amendment rights, but those rights only protect them from the government censorship, not private censorship. Which means your freedom of speech is only protected from the government and it is not protected from the private school you attend. Remember a public school can censor or punish students' on-campus speech. Although the Tinker decision recognized that students have free speech rights on campus, the court also held that

In summarizing the salient points of the Supreme Court case Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, it had to do with the respondent’s father who sued candidates, including a school region, affirming that the school locale's approach requiring the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at his little girl's school damaged the First Amendment. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that the father had standing and decided for the father. Certiorari was conceded to audit the standing and First Amendment issues.

The First Amendment protects the freedom of expression and prohibits Congress from limiting rights to speak or not speak freely. In case 1, the NFL players are entitled to freedom of speech to show how they are feeling, but they can't sue. Although the team is entitled to freedom of speech, there is no state action taken. This prevents the football team from winning the case against the school. The private school will win because there is no state action. In the third case, the players are entitled to freedom of speech. There was state action taken due to the public school being funded by the state. There is silent speech involved but it isn't prohibited. There is no compelling interest to limit these rights so the football team is the one

While the group of students that were being bullies can be seen as absolutely wrong, they have the same right to freedom of speech as the group of students that were wearing the t-shirt. However, due to the type and context of slanderous remarks against the t-shirt group, the bullies would be wrong in this instance. When teachers or faculty witness bullying of any sort, there are some disciplinary actions that are taken to rectify the situation. By way of the First Amendment, all students have the right to freedom of speech in a variety of ways including displays.

Prayer plays such a big role in many people’s lives. It happens each and every day and multiple times throughout the day. Even though it can play a huge role in someone’s life, it cannot be practiced in schools. Prayer in school has been a very controversial topic for many years. According to Steven K. Green, “On June 25, 1962, the United States Supreme Court decided in Engel v. Vitale that a prayer approved by the New York Board of Regents for use in schools violated the First Amendment by constituting an establishment of religion (Green 1).” It has since then been taken out of school preventing teachers to preach or teach about religion.