#tdih 1969, SCOTUS ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" in Tinker v. Des Moines -- students (age 8-17) suspended b/c they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam war. 🧵
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The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”