To: HiTech RedNeck
I have always believed schools have the right to establish policy on what can or cannot be worn in their classrooms.
This was challenged in a successful lawsuit back in the late 1960s in an Iowa case where a kid wore a black arm band pinned to his shirt sleeve.
I'll see if I can find the case...
To: Eric in the Ozarks
There are so many if’s, and’s and but’s involved in this kind of thing. At any rate it could have been handled much more calmly. We seem to be a freak country today (on the verge of freaking out everywhere).
16 posted on
07/05/2013 5:32:57 AM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Tinker vs. the Des Moines Independent School District. 1965. Kids were protesting the war in VN.
Case went to the US Supreme Court. Court ruled it was a 1st Amendment issue and the school had to demonstrate why it would prohibit certain “speech,” in this case, wearing a black armband...
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I have always believed schools have the right to establish policy on what can or cannot be worn in their classrooms.The school has a dress code. The kid's shirt did not violate it. This was an ad hoc I'm-offended-by-you decision.
22 posted on
07/05/2013 9:35:35 AM PDT by
BfloGuy
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