Students Shout for Right

Students have limited free of speech in most countries around the world

School districts violating First Amendment right of freedom of speech for students. Specific types of dress code are precise in most high schools for students. Because the dress code is important to most high schools across the country, students should be able to express themselves any way they want as long as the act is appropriate or doesn’t invade the right of others. Supreme Court sided with the students.

Students and teachers don’t “Shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” the Court said. Supreme Court upheld the suspension of Matthew Fraser, a 17-year-old senior at Bethel High School in Tacoma, Washington, who presented a speech containing sexual innuendos. Supreme Court said “It is a highly appropriate function of public school education to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive terms in a public discourse.” Lower courts relied on Tinker in ruling school attire. Schools allowing nose rings, dyed hair, for example, but disallowing a T-shirt displaying a Confederate flag. Instead of focusing on the debate of dress code in high school, the more important thing is focusing on change that will affect our community and make our students and facility feel safe, such as the debate about teachers being allowed to have a gun on them incase of an attack or creating a safety plan for our schools.

Gun control is definitely an idea that should be commenced, but the debate about guns being in the hand of teachers has created a large dispute across the country, after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida occurred and took seventeen lives. CNNWorldNews.com states that parents think this idea is “terrible” and “ridiculous”. Guns are already banned in certain states of the country, this solution could change society for the best of us.