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The first court that the Tinkers went to was a district court. This court decided that prohibiting the use of the armbands was the correct thing to do. By doing so the school district avoided disturbances which include fights, arguments, and bullying.
Not satisfied with this the Tinkers decided to take the case to a higher court. Here the Court of Appeals couldn’t agree with each other and the final decision ended in a tie. In case of a tie the decision of the lower courts stands. So this means that the Tinkers lost the case again.
Again not satisfied with the decision they decide to challenge the courts again and go to the Supreme Court. Here the decision was 7-2 in favor of the Tinkers. The court decided that by restricting the armbands in school they restricted the students freedom of speech.

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The issue with this case wasn’t the armbands themselves but what it represented. By not allowing the children to wear the black armbands they where interfering with their freedom of speech. The other issue is from the schools point of view. Allowing the kids to wear the armbands could cause problems in school such as fights, arguments, and children paying more attention to the armbands rather than their work. Here I have to agree with the schools since the kids grow up in different environments and most likely have different beliefs. This could and would’ve definitely ended with at least one school fight between students who support the war and those who don’t support it. The school was just doing its job which is to protect the children.

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The Vietnam War caused a lot of controversy during the 1960’s in the US, so it isn’t a surprise that many Americans protested against the war. Well the Tinkers also protested The Vietnam War except when the children did it they got in trouble. The Des Moines School District was well aware of this and decided to take action against this. The school district decided to ban students from wearing black armbands which represented the people protesting the war and whoever refused to remove them would be suspended from school (http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html).