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Find out more about youth rights concerning school dress codes. Students have First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and expression. When are these rights violated by dress codes?

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PJ wearing students not allowed in class

A senior prank at Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky resulted in 100 or so students wearing pajamas to school.   

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School allows student to wear gay-pride wristband

Chris Quintanilla is a 14 year old student in the 8th grade at a school in Peoria, Arizona.  Chris is 

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Texas senior can keep his long hair

“I feel good that the school board respects me for who I am – a native person.” School rules at 

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Florida students get ‘belted’

At Plantation High School in Florida, 200 belts were handed out to sagging students on March 27, 2009 which was 

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Prom dresses and tuxedos – what’s all the fuss about?

Do you think public school dress codes should prohibit girls from wearing tuxedos or boys from wearing dresses to the 

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Happy 40th, tweens, teens and Tinker!!

That’s right. On February 24, 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that students are persons with fundamental rights in-and-out of 

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Do dress codes at school violate the First Amendment?

Not only has every parent in America been asked at some point why their kid can’t wear what they want to