Students Identify With 50-Year-Old Supreme Court Case
Teenagers in Washington, D.C., were inspired by a recent lesson in the First Amendment rights of students after three federal judges and their law clerks re-enacted a landmark Supreme Court case.
They came by subway, and on foot. Two hundred forty middle and high school students from Washington, D.C., public schools. Destination: the federal courthouse at the foot of Capitol Hill. They were there to watch a re-enactment of a landmark Supreme Court case on a subject that is near and dear to their hearts â the First Amendment rights of students.
What they learned, among other things, was that history repeats itself, even in their young lives.
This is the third time that the judges of the federal appeals court have invited students to watch a re-enactment of Tinker v..
