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    One of the most well-known Supreme Cases involving student rights was the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District decision of 1969. The verdict quickly became a precedent for many other decisions involving school issues and is very relevant today. In December of 1965, students attending Des Moines Public Schools held a meeting at Christopher Eckhardt 's house to conduct a plan to show their support for a truce in the ongoing Vietnam War. They resolved to wear black armbands during the holiday

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    Liberty High School. This rural school of 400 students knows Flynt as someone willing to test school policy at his own sacrifice. Describing himself as a “button-pushing anarchist-ish civil libertarian,” Flynt is occasionally getting into trouble with school authorities for furthering his civic engagement with school policy and politics. His keenness for politics and constitutional school policies has led him again into more trouble. During Flynt’s senior year, he was suspended from school for actions

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    DATE: November 1, 2014 RE: Speeker v. South Bay County School District Facts Oliver Wendell Holmes High School took part in a community wide health fair. The school set up a booth and asked their students to participate. The teachers gave extra credit to the students that attended the health fair, and the student would have to sign in at the schools booth to verify their attendance. Susie Speeker, a student at Oliver Wendell Holmes High School, attended the fair with her family. While at the community

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    alleged cyberbullying, Beaufort Country School District has taken proactive steps towards de-escalating cyberbullying in their schools. Willis was bullied on social media networks: Facebook, and Instagram, and video-sharing website YouTube. Despite her family monitoring her Internet activities neither her parents nor friends were aware she used a pseudonym on Tumblr until after her passing where repeated threats and bullying took place. Beaufort County Schools has added anti-bully prevention and conflict

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    Is giving students free speech more important than not offending other students? There have been many debates over whether there should be limitations on students’ speech in public schools. Many people believe that unrestricted speech can cause conflict because there are endless amounts of different opinions, including offensive ones. On the other hand, there are people who think everyone should feel free to voice their ideas and opinions. Lastly, there are people who believe there should be limitations

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    why America is so great. Although, there are some exceptions to this amendment when public schools are involved. In this case it was a public university the students were attending, and the posters were on campus grounds, so these exceptions to the Amendment apply. The first case to be examined is Tinker v. Des Moines, a very famous case. This case was on trial in 1969, three students in a public high school were suspended for silently protesting the Vietnam war, by wearing black armbands. The Supreme

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    is used. In Tinker v. Des Moines, John Tinker and some fellow students that attended Des Moines public school were suspended for wearing black armbands to school. They wore the armbands to protest the Vietnam War. The school district was afraid of the outcome of the students wearing the armbands rather than acknowledging their freedom of speech The students then brought a suit against the school saying that the suspension violated their rights of freedom of speech. The case was appealed to the Supreme

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    years old, Mary Beth Tinker was strongly affected by the war and the news it carried with it. With this, she decided wear a black armband to school protesting the war in Vietnam. She was not alone in this protest, as her brother, John, and other students decided to wear black armbands to protest the war as well. The Des Moines Independent Community School District found out about the protest before it occurred and passed a preemptive ban.

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    Dress Code In Schools

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    Schools are normally permitted to generate and implement dress code programs within the district, but they must do it without violating the constitutional rights of students. In the Tinker vs. Des Moines School District law case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that students that the students had the right to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam war. The court determined that the student did not lose their First Amendment Rights to freedom of speech when they stepped onto school property

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    At a public school in Des Moines , Iowa , students organized a silent protest against the Vietnam War. Students planned to wear black armbands to school to protest the fighting but the principal was not happy with their decision and threaten to suspend any student that will participate. Despite the warning, students wore the armbands and were suspended. During their suspension the students' parents sued the school for violating their children's right to free speech. A U.S. district court sided with

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