Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Student Rights in the 21st century

This may be of interest:
Student Rights in the 21st Century
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
7pm
Clark University, 950 Main Street, Jefferson Room 320

Featuring Mary Beth Tinker of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Decided February 24, 1969
Three public school pupils in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that in wearing armbands, the petitioners were quiet and passive. They were not disruptive and did not impinge upon the rights of others. In these circumstances, their conduct was within the protection of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth.
Also featuring Jeffrey J. Pyle of Jeffrey Pyle and another vs. School Committee of South Hadley and others.
Decided July 25, 1996
This case had to do with the right of students to wear t-shirts to school with a certain message and were disciplined The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that high school students in public schools have the freedom to engage in non-school-sponsored expression that may reasonably be considered vulgar, but causes no disruption or disorder.

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