Thought crimes
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that students and teachers do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” But that decision has not described the status quo for quite some time. That decision came from the famous Supreme Court decision for Tinker v. Des Moines which upheld the right of students to engage in expressive activity as long as it did not substantially disrupt school. The case of Morse v. Frederick in June has become the latest case to further define the constitutional rights of students in a restrictive and narrow manner. Most of you probably know of the Morse v. Frederick case because of the famous “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” poster that got a high school student before the Supreme Court.
