Posted on Apr 29, 2021
'Frightened To Death': Cheerleader Speech Case Gives Supreme Court Pause
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Facing its biggest student speech case in a half-century, the Supreme Court seemed to be looking for a narrow exit door on Wednesday.
At issue was whether schools may punish students for speech that occurs online and off-campus but that may affect school order.
The case has been billed as the most important student speech case since 1969. That landmark ruling came at the height of the Vietnam War. Mary Beth Tinker and four other students went to court after they were suspended for wearing black armbands to school to protest the war.
At issue was whether schools may punish students for speech that occurs online and off-campus but that may affect school order.
The case has been billed as the most important student speech case since 1969. That landmark ruling came at the height of the Vietnam War. Mary Beth Tinker and four other students went to court after they were suspended for wearing black armbands to school to protest the war.
'Frightened To Death': Cheerleader Speech Case Gives Supreme Court Pause
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Can't wait to see what comes out of this. Sounds like started with hurt feelings and the school system overreacred.
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Seems the speech was off-campus and a school official brought it to campus...
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The fact that the Supreme Court has ever ruled that schools can infringe on free speech is ridiculous. Tinker was a terribly decided case, and it is on the back of Tinker that there is even a rationale for this case. If the court was honest it would recognize the inarguable fact that public schools are government entities, thus they must, without exception, remain within the restrictions set forth on the government in the constitution, thereby precluding the ability of the schools to do anything to infringe on free speech. And to act as if the schools even apply the Tinker ruling equally across the board is to admit to one's own ignorance of the situation occurring across the country in our schools.
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