The basis for this is "protected symbolic speech." In the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), the Court held that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." The ruling emphasized that symbolic speech, such as wearing armbands to protest, is protected under the First Amendment as long as it does not disrupt the educational process.
Based on the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, it would be legal for you to wear an armband to school in order to protest an action taken by our government if it did not create a distraction. What is the basis for this?(1 point) Responses protected symbolic speech protected symbolic speech Establishment Clause Establishment Clause freedom to assemble peacefully freedom to assemble peacefully freedom to petition
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