Ah well, I didn't realize they had uniforms. That doesn't really change anything. The rule still allows for one type of football jersey or even football colors, while prohibits others.

Again, this is content based and would be unconstitutional anywhere but a public school.

It is a public school, so I think they might be able to get away with that kind of rule. That doesn't make it right. Once again, it goes directly against First Amendment principles.

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Posted by Catman88

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Posted on 2/6/10 at 11:45 am to TxTiger82

BTW with your argument its interesting because where I work we had a black and gold day and one of my coworkers who doesnt follow football wore a colts blue and white shirt with an actual colt on it. We gave him shite all day about it but he really has no idea who the Colts are.

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Posted by WikiTiger

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Posted on 2/6/10 at 11:50 am to TxTiger82

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District defines free speech rights of students in public schools.

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The court's 7 to 2 decision held that the First Amendment applied to public schools, and that administrators would have to demonstrate constitutionally valid reasons for any specific regulation of speech in the classroom. Justice Abe Fortas wrote the majority opinion, holding that the speech regulation at issue in Tinker was "based upon an urgent wish to avoid the controversy which might result from the expression, even by the silent symbol of armbands, of opposition to this Nation's part in the conflagration in Vietnam," and, finding that the actions of the Tinkers in wearing armbands did not cause disruption, held that their activity represented constitutionally protected symbolic speech.

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