Student Rights – Know Where You Stand
(Continued from Page 2) In April of 1998, two students were suspended from their San Antonio, Texas, school for getting tattoos that were sexual in nature. Regardless of whether the tattoos were appropriate or not, did this violate their right to freedom of expression? Was it in violation of their right to an education? In August of 2001, a third grade boy was dismissed from school when he refused to remove the jewelry from his newly pierced ear. Did this infringe on not only his rights, but also the rights of his parents to decide what is or isn’t appropriate for their child? Read this article, and then you make the call. Do Students Have Rights? The first question is, do students have any rights? Yes, of course they do. In 1969, The Supreme Court had this to say as a result of the case Tinker v. Des Moines, “First Amendment
