According to one law professor, the First Amendment typically does not allow government entities to censor speech this way, but the courts afford more leeway to government employees who work in schools, where order and tranquility are paramount.
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School OK to Ban American Flag Shirts at Cinco De Mayo Party: Court
A federal appeals court last week held that the principal of a California high school acted constitutionally when he told students wearing American flag t-shirts to turn them inside out in the interest of maintaining peace during the school’s Cinco De Mayo celebration, which had inspired altercations between the school’s white students and Mexican students the year before. So reports the Daily Caller.
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