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In 1968, 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker was suspended from school for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War. We took her case all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of Mary Beth and students’ right to free speech 56 years ago today.

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The number of school administrators I’ve encountered (as a parent) that don’t seem to have read Tinker is one of my greatest frustrations with public education governance.

We’re defending all of our right to speak out on our beliefs today just as fiercely as we did all those years ago.