Despite the new policy created, students Mary Beth Tinker, 13 years old, and Christopher Eckhardt wore their armbands to school on December 16th. After lunch, Tinker was called to the principal’s office to receive a warning about the armband. After refusing to remove the …show more content…
The first time that the US Supreme Court ever declared that school students had First Amendment rights was in 1943 during West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. The West Virginia State Board of Education passed a law saying that all students were required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day at school and to salute the flag. Many parents argued that their children were not allowed to do this due to their religion, being Jehovah’s Witnesses. The parents of these students took the case to the Supreme Court where it was decided that the students were not required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance because it stated that the United States is one nation “under God” and this violated their religious beliefs and freedom and