To: murphE
Tinker vs. Des Moines, 1969, established that students "do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate". Unless the free expression through clothing is overtly violent or obscene, any regulation must be content-neutral. If other "message" T shirts are permitted this shirt must be permitted.
How anyone can complete the coursework and testing to become a school administrator without knowledge of this basic case is beyond me, but we see examples of such ignorance every December as some try to ban Christmas cards, candy canes, and "Merry Christmas".
8 posted on
04/17/2005 6:42:38 PM PDT by
lightman
(The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
To: lightman
A little discrimination should be in order. No political slogansin t-shirts.. I know that fifty years ago I could not have worn something like this in a school. Now something like a button. Maybe.
16 posted on
04/17/2005 9:48:35 PM PDT by
RobbyS
(JMJ)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson