Lesson Plan: Reading Supreme Court Decisions: Tinker v. Des Moines
Grades 9-12
In the midst of the Vietnam War, Mary Beth Tinker, her siblings and other students in Des Moines, Iowa, engaged in nonviolent protest by wearing black armbands to school. After receiving a suspension, the students challenged the school district´s decision, asserting that the students had a constitutionally protected right to free speech. The Tinker case stands as precedent for other similarly situated student speech cases. However, as digital speech continues to evolve, students are faced with new questions about where free speech can and cannot be regulated.
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