2008/12/24

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Ark. school district seeks high court review of armbands case

clipped by: wiccantexan

A recent appeal to the nation?s highest court by an Arkansas school district seeks to limit the application of a Supreme Court standard in cases involving challenges to school-uniform policies. The case involves black-armband protests by students against the Watson Chapel School District?s adoption of a new uniform policy.


Nearly 40 years ago, the Supreme Court upheld the right of public school students to wear black armbands to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, writing in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist. (1969) that students do not shed their First Amendment rights at the ?schoolhouse gate.?

Watson Chapel school officials punished three students for violating a so-called ?uniformity? requirement, which provided that: ?any attempt to defeat the uniformity intended by this policy is prohibited.?


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