Recently the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued a Florida school district claiming that "the Alachua County School District violated students' rights by not allowing them to wear T-shirts with an anti-Islamic message" (NY Times). The ACLU stated that it may not agree with the message that was on the shirt, which stated that "Islam is the Devil", but that students had the right the right to wear the shirts due to the Constitution and the first amendment which states that everyone should get the freedom of speech. According to a letter written by the school board's law firm to the American Civil Liberties Union, it stated that "a school may regulate a student's free speech rights if the exercise of those rights materially and substantially interferes with maintaining appropriate discipline at school, or if the conduct impinges on the rights of other students" (NY Times). It is true that students should get to wear the shirts that stated the anti-Islam message because of the freedom of speech. In this case I am against the school boards banning of the shirt and I am on the American Civil Liberties Union's side. I do not agree at all with the message that are on the shirts, but I still believe that the students should be allowed to practice their constitutional rights after all isn't this America?
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