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Tinker Vs. Des Moines 1969. Condensed. Students are entitled to exercise their constitutional rights even while in school. Neither “students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” . New Jersey Vs. T.L.O. 1985.
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Tinker Vs. Des Moines 1969
Condensed Students are entitled to exercise their constitutional rights even while in school. Neither “students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
New Jersey Vs. T.L.O. 1985
School officials do not need a warrant to justify a search as long as the search was reasonable under the circumstances. The privacy interest of students…
must be balanced against the interest of teachers and school officials in maintaining order and discipline in school.
Condensed Schoolofficialsdo not need to have probable cause to believe that a student has violated school rules in order to initiate a search.
Instead, school officials are only required to have a “reasonable suspicion” that a student has violated school rules in order to search that student.