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**In today's news;** **five students of Des Moines County Schools in Des Moines, Iowa were suspended** **for exercising their right to the First Amendment. 15 year-old John Tinker and 13 year-old Mary Beth Tinker along with three other students were suspended from school.** **They all were petitioners to support a truce and to stop the hostilities in Vietnam****. These** **students wore black armbands to school to express their objections; where they were suspended for “fear of disruption of school”****.** ======

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**It was** **discovered that the principals of the county schools became notified of the plan of the wearing of the armbands to school. December 14 (1965) they met and adopted a new policy. It states that any students wearing an armband to school would be asked to remove to remove it; and if he or she refused they would be suspend and not to return til they come back without it.** ======

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**After the suspensions the parents of the Tinkers were raged. They said “We feel that our kids right to the First amendment was violated. The school district will see you in court”.** ======

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**Currently now the family and school district are still in the process of a ruling in the Tinker Vs. Des Moines Independent Community School District case, we will have updates on the results on a later date.** ======

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**Earlier in the week we heard about the Tinker Vs. Des Moines Independent Community School District case. To recap on the case; students were suspended for wearing black armbands to school in protest to the hostilities in Vietnam and to support a truce. Not to return until they come back without the armbands. The ruling of the case is that** **the school district won****.** **Its was that students and teachers are limited in the school setting to the First Amendment** **(free speech).** ======

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**Mary: I know it's been a while I missed you since you moved away to New York. I've been alright other than John and I got suspended from school and three other kids.** ======

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**Mary: We all** **wore black armbands to school****. The community, my family, and I** **were protesting the hostilities in Vietnam and to support a truce****. We weren't even hurting any one.** ======

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**Lea: You were only doing what you guys felt was right. I don't see the big deal, it's only a little armband. It's not like you were yelling in the halls or drawing a lot of attention to yourselves, I cant believe it.** ======

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**Mary: It was** **ruled that students and teachers are limited to the to freedom of speech in the schools.** **Also** **it was found out the the district principals discovered our plan to wear the armbands; they made up a new policy against it right before we got a chance to wear them to school. Anyone wearing them would be asked to take them off, if not they would be suspended until they return to school without them** **. John and I didn't go back until after New Year's. **======

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 * Mary: Here's the icing on the cake the school district won. What really made me mad was the judge said “Students aren't wise enough to say what and how they feel”. **======

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**Hello how have you been? I miss you. A lots been going on over here back home. A few weeks ago some of the community, the family and I made a commitment to** **protest for a trues and the hostilities in Vietnam.** **We all made a plan to wear black armbands through the holiday season for the protest. Mary and I took part as well and wore our armbands to school. Guess what Grandma? We both got suspended along with three other kids from the community, we** **couldn’t go back til we came back to school without the armbands****.** **Mary and I didn't go back til after New Year's****. Mom and dad took the school to court, they felt that they violated out rights to the first Amendment.** **Courts say that students and teachers have limited rights to freedom of speech, so the school won.** **I knew for sure we would win, but I guess not. Grandma I'm just catching you up on somethings that's been going no. I hope to hear from you soon.** ======


 * ======**Case concerns that students of Des Moines County Schools, John and Mary Beth Tinker were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to school participating in a protest.** ======
 * ======**The protest was for their objections to the hostilities in Vietnam and their support for a truce.** ======
 * ======**Tinker family took there suspensions to court.** ======
 * ======**It was said in the courts that students and teachers have limited freedom of speech in schools.** ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**There for the school won the case.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**The Tinker Vs. Des Moines case is a supreme court case in** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**relation to the First Amendment. John Tinker and Mary Beth Tinker students of Des Moines County Schools were suspended along with three other students December 16, 1965, for wearing black armbands to school in participation of a protest. The protest was to show their objections to the hostilities in Vietnam and support for a truce; symbolized buy wearing the black armbands during the holiday seasons.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**The students were suspended until they returned without the armbands.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> **Parents of the Tinkers were outraged by this act of the suspensions and took to schools to court.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Courts say that the students and teachers have limited rights to freedom of speech. The ruling came back that the students won, and the Tinkers didn't return back to school til after New Year's day.** ======


 * 1) ======<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Would you have just removed the armbands if asked to remove them by the principal? Yes or No** ======
 * 2) ======<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Why or why not?** ======
 * 3) ======<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**What were your views on this case?** ======
 * 4) ======<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Do you feel the students were in the right for what they did?** ======
 * 5) ======<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**How do you feel about the ruling that** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**students and teachers have limited rights in schools** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**?** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Reporter: John how do your parents feel about you and you little sister getting suspended from school because, of a protest your family was participating in?** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**John: We got suspended for wearing our black armbands to school in participation of a protest to the hostilities in Vietnam and our support for a truce. Right now in court its not looking too good for my sister and I that's all I can say for now. I can get back to you after our ruling comes back in a few.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**John: The judge said the students and teachers have limited rights to freedom of speech in school, so the school won the case. I feel this was because, my sister and I disturbed no one. We wanted to express ourselves and got suspended for it.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Reporter: This is a sad thing, maybe one day things will change and you may be the one to do it. However thank you for speaking with me today and I wish you well.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Web: <,** __[|**http://www.law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrils/firstamendment/tinker.html**]__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**>.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**<,** __[|**http://bc.edu/bc_org/avplcas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html**]__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**>.** ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**<,** __[|**http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=393&invol=503**]__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**>.** ======