Banned At School: The Case Of Tinker V. Des Moines

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"Students don't shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate." - Catherine Ross. A statement that encapsulates the argument between those who believe that student opinion should be prohibited at school and those that do not. In the case of Tinker v. Des Moines, both sides to this argument make several good points. The people who believe that speech should not be prohibited in the educational setting make several good arguments. Chief Justice Abe Fortas wrote "There here is no evidence whatever of petitioners' interference...with the schools' work," showing that the school had no reason to take the right of wearing the armbands away from the students as they were not interfering with the school's job, which is to teach

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