This case all started with a meeting at Christopher Echardt’s house to do a silent protest of the Vietnam war. The “Tinker kids” decided the wear two-inch-wide black armbands to school for the protest. Before the students could wear their armbands, the principals of the Des Moines School District found out about what they were planning and fearing that the armbands would provoke disturbances, they resolved that all students
This case all started with a meeting at Christopher Echardt’s house to do a silent protest of the Vietnam war. The “Tinker kids” decided the wear two-inch-wide black armbands to school for the protest. Before the students could wear their armbands, the principals of the Des Moines School District found out about what they were planning and fearing that the armbands would provoke disturbances, they resolved that all students