Social Studies Extended Response 1

In 1969 the students in Des Moines Independent Community School got suspended for protesting the Vietnam War by wearing black arm bands. The students that wore the arm bands should have not been suspended from school because they did no wrong. In the First Amendment it states that we have the right to freedom of speech. That’s why the courts sided with the students. They felt that the students did no wrong by wearing the arm bands do to the fact that they did not harm any students nor staff with this protest.

If the situation was different, say like if the student’s protest was violent, harming or threatening to staff and other students, then that’s when the school officials may prohibit student conduct when it comes to this type of protesting.