Our schools should demonstrate the American value of free speech to the leaders of tomorrow. We should encourage young people to participate in democracy – not punish them for thoughtfully and peacefully expressing their First Amendment rights as the students at Hazelwood West High School did,” said Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the ACLU of Missouri. “Nearly 50 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not ‘shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.’”
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