Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates September 2021 No. 6 Vol. 24
Children’s First Amendment Rights

Student Free Speech

The First Amendment Outside the “Schoolhouse Gate”

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Children’s First Amendment Rights

Overview of Supreme Court Precedent

In a case upholding high school students’ right to wear black armbands to protest the war in Vietnam, the Supreme Court held that public school students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” — Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969). …

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