Posted on 03/29/2015 2:38:23 PM PDT by PROCON
A California school dispute that arose when students wore shirts emblazoned with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo could prompt the Supreme Court to take a new look at free-speech rules for high schools.
Ever since students protested the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands, the justices have said the 1st Amendment protects the rights of students to peacefully protest at school, so long as their actions do not lead to a "substantial disruption."
In recent years, however, some school officials have moved to curtail political fashion statements such as wearing T-shirts with Confederate flags or anti-gay slogans. They have argued that some limits were necessary to avoid offending other students and possibly provoking violence.
On Friday, the justices met to decide on hearing a case asking whether a school official's fear of violence justified disciplining students for wearing American flags on their shirts.
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It was pretty controversial in the 1960’s, as I remember, it was widely viewed as completely disrespectful.
Times changed, and now it rarely merits a raised eyebrow.
In this particular case though, it appears that a majority of the local students were of Mexican descent, and the public school administration actively discriminated against a minority of students, who were not.
I wondered at the time if a French flag T-shirt wearer would have been seen as “inflaming” the situation? It seemed to me that might have caused a ruckus, but perhaps none of the Mexicans knew what it looked like, so just assumed the USA flag T-shirt wearers were the “enemy”.
In the USA, at a USA public school.
I do understand why the USSC decided to hear the case.
Can you imagine ISIS flag T-shirt wearers in USA schools on 9/11/2015?
Is that going to be considered acceptable or objectionable?
What if certain students don't want to tape their mouths shut on gay-days?
Or wear pink shirts to support breast cancer awareness?
When and how does the crap end?
I pity the fool who tries to make me take it off.
As long as it remains okay to burn the American flag on Cinco de Mayo.
LOL
Dumb. But very funny!
Stop! You’re killin’ me here!
“...political fashion statements....”
So now wearing something that says “I love my country” is a political fashion statement which must be repressed but I’m sure those in power would champion the rights of students to wear Che or Reconquista shirts....
woo thats a happy looking bunch
To be clear...
Cinco de mayo is a fake Holliday created by a beer company , right?
That cinco de mayo?
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