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TIL of the “Tinker” supreme court case. In 1965 as a Vietnam War protest 3 kids wore black armbands to school. The school banned the armbands. They wore them again and were suspended. The “Tinker test” is used to see if a school’s disciplinary actions violate students’ 1st Amendment rights

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