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Free Speech
The Free Speech module introduces students to the First Amendment right to free speech and tells a story about a student being suspended from school for wearing an anti-war t-shirt.  The module also discusses the landmark case Tinker vs. Des Moines School District, which focused on students wearing black armbands to school in protest of war.

Dress Code
The Dress Code module discusses two minor First Amendment cases involving the right to wear long hair to school.

T-Shirt Game
The T-Shirt module is an interactive game addressing the issue of whether banning students from wearing t-shirts with logos on them violates students’ First Amendment rights.

What Judges Do
The What Judges Do module opens with one of those terrible, horrible, rotten, no-good days in which everything goes wrong and everyone wants justice!  The storyline describes the types of conflict that courts help resolve and the role of the judge in applying the law to the facts of each case. One of the conflicts discussed is the right wear a t-shirt with an anti-war logo to school.

 

 

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Tinker vs. Des Moines   Symbolic Speech T-shirt game   Scene from What Judges Do
 
Scene from Tinker vs.
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Symbolic Speech
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Scene from "What Judges Do"