Material and Substantial Disruption/Infringement of Rights
Advances in educational marketing, administration, and leadership book series · 2015
This chapter focuses on the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) case – the first United States Supreme Court decision about student speech under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. It discusses the two tests established in Tinker v.
Des Moines Independent Community School District for determining the scope of school authority over student speech. These tests are the “material and substantial disruption” test and the “infringement-of-rights” test. The ultimate goal of the chapter is to analyze the Tinker v.
Des Moines Independent Community School District case in order to determine if it authorizes schools to censor off-campus student speech.