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Tinker case By kelly Jean Sullivan

     data-ad-client="ca-pub-1763189992875486"> </am n a 7-2 decision,  the Supreme Court's majority ruled that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”  The Court took the position that school officials could not prohibit only on the suspicion that the speech might disrupt the learning ... Tinker v. Des Moines is a historic Supreme Court ruling from 1969 that  cemented students' rights to free speech in public schools .  Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam