Black Armbands Should Be Banned

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In 1968 Supreme Court made it to where students can show symbolic speech. However why would they have to do that? In 1968 there was a debate of whether or not black armbands that symbolized the soldiers in Vietnam who died, or it was for distraction. Among the people who described the entire thing there was Catherine Ross, Justice Hugo Black, and Cheif Justic Abe Fortas. There are those who believe that such symbols like armbands should be prohibited. They believe that symbolic things may show out and cause a distraction in class. In Chief Justice Abe Fortas majority opinion "conduct by the student, in class or out of it, which for any reason-whether it stems from time, place, or type of behavior- materially disrupts classwork or involves

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