Even though the Court decided Tinker nearly 55 years ago, it remains the leading student K-12 decision and lower courts apply the standards from Tinker with regularity.
A play that Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department students and faculty worked on since early in the semester was called off in a single day following campus outrage and administrative interference.
Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla, California, suspended a student and barred him from attending future sporting events after the student wore exaggerated eye black at a football game.
FIRE believes higher education can only fulfill its important mission when students can speak their minds. And we’ll defend the rights of all Florida’s students — and all Americans — to speak freely.
More than 70 years ago, California ’s colleges and universities played a shameful role in the effort to suppress academic freedom in the name of anti-communism.