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CaptainTruth

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9. School children need to wear black masks as a form of political protest...
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 12:05 PM
Sep 2021

...thus protected speech under 1A.

TINKER V. DES MOINES - LANDMARK SUPREME COURT RULING ON BEHALF OF STUDENT EXPRESSION

On Feb. 24, 1969, the court ruled 7-2 that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

The court found that the First Amendment applied to public schools, and school officials could not censor student speech unless it disrupted the educational process. Because wearing a black armband was not disruptive, the court held that the First Amendment protected the right of students to wear them.

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