The U. But a small, outspoken antiwar movement was forming, especially among young people. Mary Beth and her brother John, 15, felt inspired when they heard about antiwar protests. The siblings and three friends agreed to wear armbands to school to protest the war. But as Mary Beth, John, and their friends were planning their protest, school officials learned about it. They quickly banned all armbands and said that anyone who broke the rule would be suspended. The Tinker siblings and their friends decided to protest anyway.
Expressing their views was worth a suspension, they reasoned. Still, they worried. As for Mary Beth, she thought she would serve her suspension and move on. School officials learned about the protest that Mary Beth, John, and their friends were planning.
They quickly banned all armbands. They said that anyone who broke the rule would be suspended. They reasoned that expressing their views was worth a suspension. But they still worried. Mary Beth thought she would serve her suspension and move on. The family appealed the punishment to the school board. Some supported the teens. But many others called their protest un-American. The board held firm: The Tinkers and their friends were suspended.
Case closed. Still, the students and their parents refused to give up. Both the Tinker and the Eckhardt families opposed the war in Vietnam and stood behind their kids. The case began to make its way through the courts. At the same time, more men were being drafted into the military, and the antiwar movement was growing.
In , about , people demonstrated against the Vietnam War in Washington, D. However, many Americans still considered it wrong to oppose the war. As a result, the Tinkers became the focus of a lot of anger. The family received hate mail and death threats, and someone shattered their car window with a brick. The Tinkers did not take the suspension lightly. The board held firm. The Tinkers and their friends were suspended. But the students and their parents refused to give up.
Both the Tinker and the Eckhardt families opposed the war in Vietnam. They stood behind their kids. At the same time, more men were being drafted into the military.
The antiwar movement was growing. However, many Americans still thought it was wrong to oppose the war. The Tinkers became the focus of a lot of anger as a result. They received hate mail and death threats.
Someone shattered their car window with a brick. At the center of the Tinker case was the First Amendment, which guarantees, among other things, the right to free speech. Two years after the Tinkers filed suit in , the U. Supreme Court agreed to hear their case. By then, Mary Beth was in 11th grade.
The Tinker family celebrated that night with ice cream. After all, the Vietnam War, with all of its suffering and death, raged on. At the center of the Tinker case was the First Amendment. It guarantees the right to free speech, among other things. But until Tinker , the courts had not considered how the First Amendment applied to students. He is a law professor at American University in Washington, D. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case two years after the Tinkers filed suit in On February 24, , the justices finally delivered their ruling.
Students had every right to speak their minds as long as they did not disrupt school activities. That was because the Vietnam War still raged on with all of its suffering and death.
How does the case affect you now? The nationwide student protests on March 14, , offer one example. On that day, thousands of students walked out of their classes to demand an end to gun violence after a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 people. Schools wrestled with how to respond to the walkouts.
Some officials helped students protest. Others threatened to suspend them. Before the protests, the ACLU reminded students via social media that schools could punish them for not attending class. On the day of the walkouts, Mary Beth, now a retired nurse, joined student protesters near her McLean, Virginia, home. She told them to keep speaking up. Subscribe Log in. Explore an Issue.
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