My School is Selectively Censoring Students on Politics

[Planr]

if it's not offensive it's protected by the first amendment. school rules do not forbid it.

the first amendment protects "offensive" speech as well you know
thats literally the core reason why it was originally created

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[Cappytaino]

the first amendment protects "offensive" speech as well you know
thats literally the core reason why it was originally created

yes, but not in a school setting. Tinker v. Des Moines ruled that offensive speech was not protected in school provided that it can be proven that the speech in question is undeniably offensive to a REASONABLE PERSON.

if our poster said something like "gas the jews" I could understand, but it said nothing offensive.

[XR-7]

sue! sue! sue! sue! sue! sue!

No it's cappytaino, not sue.

[Nymph]

yes, but not in a school setting. Tinker v. Des Moines ruled that offensive speech was not protected in school provided that it can be proven that the speech in question is undeniably offensive to a REASONABLE PERSON.

if our poster said something like "gas the jews" I could understand, but it said nothing offensive.

I want to see actual precedence though, because the case you keep referencing doesn't really relate to you. I would imagine they are allowed to take down stuff that is put on their walls without permission.

[Akio-]

if it's not offensive it's protected by the first amendment. school rules do not forbid it.

Technically only the government can take away your constitutional rights.
Seems like another liberal far-left social justice warrior tactic where they propagate support for their favored candidate and then play a victim card when a conservative comes about. "It may offend other people" isn't an excuse for having politically uneducated students.

[Cappytaino]

I want to see actual precedence though, because the case you keep referencing doesn't really relate to you. I would imagine they are allowed to take down stuff that is put on their walls without permission.

the bylaws of the school do not forbid taping posters on the wall, and it does not matter if I myself was not involved in the court case I refer to. What matters is that in a court of law, a judge declared that the first amendment rights of students were protected in schools and unless the school can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a student's expression is offensive to a reasonable person, then they cannot deny students their first amendment rights

If you read the OP, there are multitudes of other political posters made by students around the school and they have been there for months. There is no doubt in my mind that my poster was taken down because it featured Donald Annoying Orange, and not because it was offensive or distasteful, meaning the school is violating my first and fourteenth amendment rights.

[Rad]

Put it back up and don't stop

do it

[Zloff]

do as already suggested: make more and dont stop putting them up

if they confront you about it, lay all this rights stuff on them

[Cappytaino]

do as already suggested: make more and dont stop putting them up

if they confront you about it, lay all this rights stuff on them

I'll probably approach it this way then, because there is no basis in neither school rules nor the law for them to censor me purely based on disagreement with my message, while I have multiple court cases and the constitution to justify my actions.

[Rigel]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Teach these cunts a lesson in law.

[Nymph]

To be fair, what they are doing isn't breaking any laws or imposing on your rights, so...

[Goku®]

persistence usually works.

you can also try being louder than by just using posters.

[MoltenKitten]

Start taking down the other posters and when you get yelled at for it tell them exactly what they told you

[Foxscotch]

It's a crock of stuff that myself and my friends are being censored because our political views do not align with much of the staff, but they leave other posters hanging. In 1969, a ruling was made in the case of Tinker v. The Des Moines Independent Community School District that students that were suspended for wearing black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam Conflict (again, a political statement that was not distracting nor disruptive) were within their first amendment rights, and the judge ruled that the first amendment rights of both students and teachers are protected at school provided they are not promoting "illegal drug use" or causing a "material and substantial disruption" of the school day. More info can be found here.

that's irrelevant. the first amendment doesn't give you the right to hang posters on other people's property. I do think it's stupid for them to allow posters for some candidates and not others, but you wouldn't have any luck in an actual court setting. that's not to say threatening to sue won't get anything done, but what you should really do is protest it. get your friends and some other students who agree together and figure out a way to protest it. moltenkitten's solution is stupid and will probably not work

[WaterOre]

Does the school authority need to sign off on the posters or something before you can hang them? My school has a system like that, and all this hoopla might just be improper procedure.