The Tinker VS Des Moines Supreme Court case concerned two students who wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War.
The school district suspended the students, possibly violating their right to free speech. Which best summarizes the majority opinion? A. There is no precedent for schools to limit the rights of students, so it is unconstitutional to suspend the students for their armbands.
B. The case went through process of judicial review to determine that fear of disruption alone was reason enough to suspend the students.
C. The First Amendment protects the students' rights to wear the armbands ; they weren't disruptive, and the school allowed other students to wear controversial symbols.
D. The Second Amendment guarantees citizens the right to bear arms and form a militia, so they were allowed to express their feelings about the war.
I think the answer is C, but what do you guys think?
C. The First Amendment protects the students' rights to wear the armbands ; they weren't disruptive, and the school allowed other students to wear controversial symbols.
Explanation:
In the Supreme Court, the majority of the Justices (7-2) determined that public schools could not prohibit the wearing of armbands in the school, as a form of symbolic protest that did not disrupt the peace and order in the institution, because it constituted a violation to the students' freedom of speech right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
