Comments on: Anti-Islam T-shirts in Florida http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/08/26/anti-islam-t-shirts-in-florida/ Promoting rational thought above dogma. Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: arachnophilia http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/08/26/anti-islam-t-shirts-in-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-422 arachnophilia Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:47:38 +0000 http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/?p=1060#comment-422 free speech in public schools (specifically through articles of clothing) is protected by tinker v. des moines, 1969. the standard in tinker is disruption: the school has a legitimate public interest in education, and speech that disrupts that can (and should be) censored. tinker held that armband were not disruptive, but i'm not sure where hateful messages spelled out on t-shirts would stand. it's probably better they were sent home or forced to change, but i still have my reservations about censoring student speech (no matter how distasteful). free speech in public schools (specifically through articles of clothing) is protected by tinker v. des moines, 1969.

the standard in tinker is disruption: the school has a legitimate public interest in education, and speech that disrupts that can (and should be) censored. tinker held that armband were not disruptive, but i’m not sure where hateful messages spelled out on t-shirts would stand.

it’s probably better they were sent home or forced to change, but i still have my reservations about censoring student speech (no matter how distasteful).

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