Raskin, Jamin. We the students. Washington D.C.: Cq Staff Directories, 2000. Print.
In the Book, We the Students by Jamin B Raskin , it gives many court cases involving freedom of speech and expression involving students verses schools and/or teachers. I believe the book gives the opinion that the school did violate the two female students’ First Amendment rights and well as the opinion that the school did not violate their rights. The support in the book is back behind the different cases mentions in the book. In mentions that students who disrupt the schools’ learning environment and the school punishes the students, it is not violating the student’s First Amendment rights; however, if the student speaks their opinion or wears something that is inappropriate outside of school and it does not interfere with the school’s learning environment, the schools’ punishment would be a violation of the First Amendment.
An intelligent person would be able to read all the example court cases in the book and be able to come up with an answer to the research question based on their readings and understanding of the material in the book. The book is a creditable source with very well known cases involving students verses school boards and teachers violating the First Amendment of the students. Not only does the book tell the outcome of the cases but it also goes into detail about the case and why or why not the cases were a violation of the student’s First Amendment rights. The book also gives other reasons students’ First Amendment rights can be violated and how to prevent these things from happening. This book would be a exceptional book to read when answering the question, if the two Indiana students’ First Amendment rights were violated when the high school punished the female students for having racy pictures on their personal MySpace page.
