Student Web Sites and First Amendment Rights

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This paper discusses how the Internet has opened innumerable doors for communication and educational enterprise and has also opened a much darker paradigm, giving students a new, often negative, avenue of expression. It cites examples of student violations and various court cases and examines how courts have begun to formulate limits to freedom of expression for students.

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"Expression in schools and students First Amendment rights have been debated in courts throughout the past 35 years with the most famous case involved being Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (Tinker 1969). The Tinker case involved the legal limits on students' speech that came into discussion when a group of students decided to wear black armbands to show objection for the Vietnam War. These students were asked to remove the armbands and when some did not they were suspended. The students sued and the United States Supreme Court concluded the expression was protected."

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