As the Supreme Court said in the Tinker case, 'It can hardly be argued that … students … shed their constitutional rights… at the schoolhouse gate.'ĭistributing religious messages to classmates between classes.īut schools can punish speech that 'materially disrupts schoolwork,' for instance because it prompts fights. Students, from first grade to twelfth, can't be punished based on their political or religious speech. Political and religious speech is protected (Mostly) Here are the Seven Rules of Free Speech in Schoolsġ. The first episode looks at the seven things you should know about how the First Amendment is applied in schools: Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA, and the co-founder of the Volokh Conspiracy, which is hosted at.
Watch the first episode of Free Speech Rules, a new video series on free speech and the law that's written by Eugene Volokh, the Gary T.
