Schools, Religious Liberty & Tinker v. Des Moines | Mark Rienzi | BRI’s Constitutional Conversations
Mark Rienzi, President of Becket Law discusses the importance of Tinker v. Des Moines for schools today.
0:00 a lot of the students and teachers who are watching this will be very familiar with the tinkerer case how does that extend and build on what on the cases that you just described so look today in schools the government can’t force people to pledge allegiance to the flag can it force people during math class to not talk about you know biology history or movies sure right so tinker says that
0:21 schools have to be able to run schools they have to be able to maintain discipline in order they have to be able to teach the kids that’s all fine but they don’t get to force people to say things that they don’t believe they don’t get to force people to swear allegiance to ideas or the flags or things like that that they don’t believe so we can have a school system and you can make sure the math class is all about math without giving the government
0:41 the ability to force your children and force students to say they believe things they don’t believe