In Tinker, perhaps the best known of the Court's student speech cases, the Court found that the First Amendment protected the right of high school students to wear black armbands in a public high school, as a form of protest against the Viet Nam War. The Court ruled that this symbolic speech--"closely akin to pure speech"--could only be prohibited by school administrators if they could show that it would cause a substantial disruption of the school's educational mission.Personally, I find that ruling out of bounds. The Principal in a school, the Teacher in a classroom, the Captain of a ship, all have close to non-reviewable authority in their decisions over ordinary things of managing the arena in which they operate.
Free speech is NOT the mission of a school. Nor did the would the Founders ever have intended the First Amendment to apply in a classroom.
“The Principal in a school, the Teacher in a classroom, the Captain of a ship,,,”
Please,, comparing the captain of a ship to glorified babysitters? Are you really wanting principals and teachers to have NON-REVIEWABLE AUTHORITY? Please tell me you are kidding?
If it *remotely* made sense 50 years ago,, i suggest you consider that todays teacher entered the womens studies and teaching program at State U, three or four years AFTER 9/11. They are a statist, politically correct menace that SHOULD be watched VERY closely.