The Negative Effects Of Band T-Shirts

“...the state, in the form of the public school system, cannot legally tell students what to wear..” (Source 1). When the district school board is determining what students can and cannot wear it violates the First Amendment. Taking away a person’s right is not only is illegal but wrong. Students maintain a certain amount constitutional rights when they are in school, their decision about what they wear is protected as well.

Have you ever seen someone with a shirt that had a band logo or picture on it? Well a student that went to Hamilton wore a shirt with a picture of a band. The principal suspended him afterwards. The rules stated to not wear shirts with a band picture on it or people will fight about it. You shouldn't wear things that disrupts class and out of school. Ben didn’t break the code and the t-shirts aren’t disruptive. First, band t-shirts have not disrupted class. In the email, they looked like they were about to fight but just laughed and went back to class. Lisa(lunch): It did not show disruption, but instead Lisa was mad at Bobby for singing. Principal: People just don’t care sometimes. Mia: she didn’t take

Just like many places of employment, schools too have the right to censor and filter the content that is being associated with them. Some schools choose to find uniformity by having a dress code or uniform policy while others have policies in place. However, these rules are all in place

The excuse of the school board president was, that the armband policy was aimed so it won’t cause a disturbing influence on the students. However, in the book Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court by Tony Mauro says “Students and a lawyer for the Iowa Civil Liberties Union reminded the board that other students had been allowed to wear armbands in other situations, such as to mourn the death of people killed in the civil rights movement” (Mauro151). The Supreme Court was asked to reverse the suspensions and to make it illegal to violated the freedom expression of the young youth even in schools. The lawyer argued that students should enjoy the same level of First Amendment protection like adults. Besides, the students, at Des Moines public school, protested without disturbing anyone. In Fact, the students’ protest was a silent expression of opinion by just wearing the armbands (Mauro). According to Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court “The Court decided that allowing the Tinkers to wear their armbands protesting the Vietnam conflict would not substantially interfere with the work of the school or impinge upon the rights of other students. Wearing the armbands was a silent, passive expression of opinion that did not involve any disorder or disturbance, and was unlikely to cause a material and substantial disruption in the school” (Mauro 151). Also, Teachers and

For some people, it seems a little bit odd to have a hearing because of wearing a piece of clothing that violates the school’s rights. Especially, in our country, we know for a fact that we are

The dress code specifically bans tank tops with straps less than one inch thick, anything with visible cleavage or exposing the mid drift, cut-off shorts or shorts and pants with holes, and shorts and skirts shorter than fingertip length. The only rule applying directly to boys is prohibiting the “sagging of shorts or pants.” Not only do these rules single out girls, but “[a]t any time, a staff member or administrator may prohibit a student from wearing certain apparel to school.” Because of this addendum, I have seen girls singled out specifically for their clothing. More than once, I have witnessed administration follow a student through the halls, then wait until class starts

Clothing with writing, printing, or a picture which is obscene, sexually suggestive, or which promotes the use of tobacco, alcohol, or illegal drugs/controlled substances is prohibited

The shark theme appeared for the first time on the film during the opening credits, with the camera view under the sea symbolizing the view of the shark when it swims underwater. The theme has couple music arrangements played by different instruments which are bass, celli, trombone and tuba. Part of the music seems be played by alternating two notes. Apart from that, the music is also played in high register and has a menacing tone. Part of the music is in slow tempo, part of it has fast tempo.

Being in 7th grade, the student did not have full rights, “For example, children have a limited right to free speech. ... However, schools may limit the child's speech if they feel it could harm other students.”( What are the Legal Rights of Children? (n.d.). Therefore, for Guiles to argue that the school was infringing on his first amendment, I feel as if this was not correct. The school had every right, and even more power than that, that could induce a dress code that involved identical uniforms. For example, according to ProCon.org. 2017, “In Long Beach, CA, after two years of a district-wide K-8 mandatory uniform policy, reports of assault and battery in the district's schools decreased by 34%, assault with a deadly weapon dropped by 50%, fighting incidents went down by 51%, sex offenses were cut by 74%, robbery dropped by 65%, possession of weapons (or weapon "look-alikes") decreased by 52%, possession of drugs went down by 69%, and vandalism was lowered by 18%.” The students shirt in question had numerous amounts of potentially provoking, or exposure, to these elements shown to cause problems in schools, and infringed on the other students being exposed to these

What if you were suspended from school because of something you were wearing? Not only was the clothing or item appropriate, it was something you were fighting for or something you believe is right. Is this fair or okay for this to happen? There is a specific incident that this situation happened to a few teenagers in Des Moines, Iowa in December of 1965. A group of students wanting to wear black armbands throughout the holiday season was in for a wake up call. (FORTAS) These plans and or idea were quickly shot down by the high school principals. The principals caught wind of the teen’s plan, so there was a meeting a few days beforehand. The talk of the meeting was to ensure the teens that if they were to wear the black armbands a few

Many students think they should be able to wear the clothes they want to as long as they are not inappropriate.

Many think that the major effect that some clothing can portray a negative image that schools and teachers want to keep out of there class room, such as clothing with beer

Yet, in 1999, when Serrano High School first banned the wearing of clothes with certain colors because they were feared to be "gang-related", the students had no choice but to comply. While the School Board does retain the right to censor some forms of expression because they are inappropriate in language or may cause a disruption to the learning process, the idea that students are not allowed to wear clothes because of their color begins to push the envelope. In 2003 the school board took this a step further and banned any hat with a logo other than the schools logo on it because of the prevalence of hats with inappropriate logos on them that might be gang-related or have a double-meaning. However, this reasoning was never justified with any event or occurrence that would prove these hats were becoming an issue of security for the students. Often times, the only form of expression a High School age student has is the clothing they wear, and the banning of their selection of clothing without giving justification is equivalent to restricting any other form of free speech without justification. The fact that school boards only vaguely justify their reasons for certain dress code restrictions is enough to warrant a reasoned inquiry by the students into why their speech is being suppressed.

A school can only get involved with matters that take place outside of the building if the disruption interferes with the education during the school day. Since the fight took place on school grounds, Mr. S decided that action should be taken on the school level. Both students were given a 10 day out of school suspension and the police were contacted and charged Andy with a terrorist threat. Steve’s mother was ok with the 10 day suspension but father was not and tried to fight it. The school suspended Steve for the fight and the father stated he felt threatened so that’s why he jumped Andy. The school stated that Steve should have informed them and not taken matters into his own hands. Father said his son wasn’t a rat and so did not find this to be acceptable for the school but they lost their case and Steve served his ten days.

It is a belief that school uniforms teach students to respect their learning environment and behave themselves, and, therefore improving discipline. However, that assumption isn’t entirely correct. Researchers have actually found that school uniforms don’t make students better behaved. According to a study of more than 4,500 students, those who wore a school uniform did not have fewer behavior problems or better attendance. Forcing students to wear uniforms lead to more problems and misbehavior instead of encouraging discipline. Students could get into trouble if they did not wear their uniforms correctly. Many kids in today’s society cannot stand the thought of someone telling them what to do, especially what to wear. Instead of encouraging respect, uniforms may cause rebellions. For example, in 2009, a group of students at John A. Ferguson Senior High School rebelled against their school uniforms. Instead of following their school uniform requirements, the students wore what they thought would be a better school uniform to school. Not only uniforms don’t earn schools the respect from its students, but it may also lead to more problems.