The issue of school speech<span> or </span>curricular speech<span> as it relates to the </span>First Amendment to the United States Constitution<span> has been the center of controversy and litigation since the mid-20th century. The First Amendment's guarantee of </span>freedom of speech<span> applies to students in the public schools. In the landmark decision </span>Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District<span>, the </span>U.S. Supreme Court<span> formally recognized that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate".</span>
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