1st Amendment Wrangling

The Tinker versus Des Moines court case involved three minors, John Tinker, Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhart. These three wore black armbands to their schools to protest the Vietnam War and were suspended following this action. Circuit courts and the Court of Appeals in Iowa ruled that the black armbands were inappropriate attire for school. This case was then brought to a higher-up court. Eventually, this case was brought before the Supreme Court.

In the case of J.S. vs Blue Mountain School District, J.S. created a MySpace profile making fun of her middle school principal, James McGonigle. The profile did not name the principal or his school, but did include a photo of him and contained some vulgar and offensive language. Even more, the United States Court of Appeals for the Thrid Circuit decreed that the School District violated J.S.’s First Amendment free speech rights.

In 1998 in California the book was challenged at Sinnott Elementary School in Milpitas because it contained language. (www.bannedlibrary.com/podcast/2015/5/11/killing-mr-griffin). Parents here try to prevent certain publications from their children’s schools, so they can apply their right to decide what their children

By examining the profanity, racial content, and references to rape, it’s deemed inappropriate for teens to read and is banned from several school libraries and lessons in school. Does the moral lesson of the story outweigh the so called inappropriate content of the book? Many people would agree with me if I said that To Kill a Mockingbird has a lesson in the story that every child should read and learn

Similarly, an epic event has villains. Little Rock Nine was primarily brimming with villains; Governor Faubus made it a personal problem when he sent the National Guardsmen to block the entrance of the school. Elizabeth remembers she tried to squeeze past him, but they raised their rifles. The white students yelled racist remarks. Many white people believed “black children had no right to attend Central High” (Walker 9).

My recommendation to decrease the amount of internet and social media cheating is by having some control on them. Which means put all these websites under the control of governments or the companies. They should also panelize the cheaters especially students and spouses. Li Ping Wu, China a professor in Lowa state University in USA said that " Actually, cheating is an ignorant act. if someone try to cheat in order to get a good grade, that means he or she gives people a false impression.

Charles R. Lawrence starts off his essay, On Racist Speech, by giving the readers a flash black of when he was in high school and how he was threatened with suspension for his refusal to participate in a civil defense drill. He also has lets the readers know that he has been a conspicuous consumer of his First Amendment liberties. Next, Lawrence brings up the issue of how there has been a resurgence in racial violence and how he cannot believe that no one has been listening to the real victims. He even mentions that blacks and other traditionally subjugated and excluded groups are the ones who are being mistreated. Lawrence uses the example of Brown versus the Board of Education to help further support his idea of racist speech.

On July 11, 2008, Stephen Harper officially apologizes for the residential school which is called reconciliation. People did feel heard but it was not enough. The movie “Rabbit Proof Fence” made in 2002, it showed that the half castes’ children were taken from their parent and got sent to residential school. Someone in the upper government has controlled power over who will be sent to school, and who will be sent to another place. But it was all done to make the American’s population more spread out.

In the article, the author avers that “Administrators at Utica College in upstate New York blocked the app in December in response to a growing number of sexually graphic posts aimed at the school’s transgender community.” Although anonymous social media was blocked, students continued using the app discarding the school 's policy. Other colleges have taken a different approach to combat the negative usage of anonymous social media. “In December, a group of 50 professors at Colgate University — which had experienced a rash of racist comments on the app earlier in the fall — flooded the app with positive posts,’ in hopes that the ‘constructive voices would overwhelm the destructive ones.” As expressed in the author 's claim, the best way to get rid of the problem is to get rid of anonymous social media

Policies like suspension and expulsion have become the go to disciplinary action for children acting up in class. But why is it that when a child acts up the first thought is to put them out of school? In the article “A preview of Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of absolute School Discipline” Derek Black talks about his book in which he tries to find the answer as to why children get kick out of school. Black stated that “once it became clear

The Melton v. Young case is about a high school student that was suspended for wearing a jacket with a Confederate flag. The issue that was discussed is, whether or not the school officials could suspend a student for wearing Confederate flag. The clothing sparking racial tension was also discussed. The racial tension from the previous year was an argument for the defense because it can be said that the jacket could have refueled this. The defense also stated that the Melton family was informed of the new rules and chose to break them.

The Vernonia Ohio school district began suspect the use of illegal drugs in their athletes. 4 ) 6) The veronica district high school was the final ruling of the court. The school believed in getting drug tested due to the kids who take drugs getting injured and out of hand in their games such as football After that

Step 1: Facts of the case This is a case in which the plaintiffs are three long haired young men who were denied the ability to enroll in Tyler Junior College due solely to their hair length violating the schools dress code. One of the plaintiffs is a Vietnam War veteran who had attended the school for a semester the previous year and had caused no difficulties in that time. The school stated that long haired students had been known to cause disruptions in the classroom. It was due to this that the rule regarding hair length was implemented into the schools dress code. Step 2: Question of law presented to the court The legal dispute taking place here is a dissension between the applicability of the Tenth and the Fourteenth Amendments in the case of hair length regulations.

I. Issue: Morse vs. Frederick, 2002; Frederick, a high school senior, hung a banner saying: “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” at a school supervised activity. Morse, the principal, suspended him for 10 days saying the banner promoted illegal drug use to those attending the school supervised activity. Frederick sued Morse saying his First Amendment rights were violated. Issue: Does the First Amendment allow public school to prohibit students from displaying banners with messages promoting use of illegal drugs at school supervised activities?

1) Of the three primary units we have completed in this course, the most challenging unit for me was the argument (persuasion) unit. I was surprised at how much I struggled both in the pre-writing process and in the writing process. To begin with, because I love arguments, I had trouble choosing a topic. In the end, I decided to challenge myself with the policy that requires sex offender to be added to a public registry policy. Instead of going with my initial stance (opposition), I decided to flip the scrip and argue the opposite of what I believe (proposition).