In Public schools, students possess rights which are free-expression under the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court said that “students do not shed constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.” According to Allison Michael post, it’s true that students have the right and freedom to speak so long as it does not disrupt the school or rights of other students (Phillips, 2013). Its public schools incite “imminent lawless action”, but that does not mean when students do wrong are not to be punished. Students should go through sometimes cancelling when the things they do wrong are reasonable; thus, it will more easily for them not to repeat that in future. In Allison friend’s son, the school did an unconstitutional thing to expel the boy from school before investigating the real matter. The school should have taken time to listen to the boy and his friend’s side of the story before deciding to expel the boy out of school.
In Terri Easter post, “students do not have the same post aggressive rights inside the schoolhouse gate as they do outside the gate”. Due to technology, this has changed because students and pupils can access school devices from home. According to the post, due to technology First Amendment right of students should be examined (Meyer, 2013). That will be necessary because students need to change the way technology is changing to avoid them being on the wrong side all the time. The First Amendment Right should include online law which can restrict the students on what they can do when online. That will reduce bomb threats, cyberbullying and use of profanity.
References
Meyer, I. R. (2013). School-based gay-affirmative interventions: First amendment and ethical concerns. American journal of public health, 1764-1771.
Phillips, B. (2013). Virtual violence or virtual apprenticeship: Justification for the recognition of a violent video game exception to the scope of first amendment rights. The U.S.
