Read the scenario. A group of middle school students have worn large green buttons on their jackets to protest government failure to clean up a polluted site near the school. The principal told them to remove the buttons, and they refused. The principal suspended the students for a week. Which Supreme Court case supports the students’ right to wear the buttons at school?

Tinker v. Des Moines School District established that students retain their First Amendment rights at school, including the right to express political views. Schools may restrict student expression only when it substantially disrupts school or interferes with others’ rights. Wearing protest buttons is symbolic expression, so Tinker supports the students’ right to wear them.

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