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Your Rights in School Activity

This activity reviews school dress code policies and explores student rights through engaging questions and court case discussions. Students analyze scenarios involving controversial attire to spark critical thinking and debate.

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Your Rights in School Activity

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  1. Your Rights in School Activity The Bill of Rights in Action 4.1-4.2 Review

  2. Activity Starters, p. 14 • Why do schools have different rules? • What are the purposes of school? • So, are dress codes legal? Why or why not? • Discuss court cases. Complete the sheet. • Tinker v. Des Moines • Bethel v. Fraser • Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier • Wallace v. Jaffree

  3. Discussion Questions • To whom does our dress code apply? • Why must schools have dress codes? • What kinds of things are prohibited? Why? • What do you feel the dress code fails to address? • Do your parents restrict what you wear to school? Should they?

  4. Should you wear this? • Middle and high school students are wearing T-shirts depicting a 9-mm handgun on the front with the words, “If This Don’t Get Ya,” and a picture of an Uzi on the back of the T-shirt with the words, “This One Will.” • A 8th grade girl wears a T-shirt depicting a beer bottle with the caption:“I’d Rather Be Partying.” • A 9th grade girl comes to school with 2 eyebrow piercings and her nose and tongue pierced. • Three high school students wear “safe sex” T-shirts with anti-AIDS messages and clear plastic pockets with condoms in them. Some of the slogans on their shirts are:“Tools for Late Night,”“Deep Cover for the Brother”and “AIDS-Hell No.” • A female senior wears a T-shirt with the caption:“I’m a lesbian. So what?”

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