1st Amendment - Scenarios

Your parents insist you attend a weekly religious service.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

Your private school requires you to say a certain prayer each morning, even though you have a different faith.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

Your public school begins a sporting event with a student-led prayer over the school’s PA system.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

Your state passes a law that everyone must pay taxes or support a specific church.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

You work in a retail store after school and on weekends. Your boss says you have to stop talking so much while you’re working.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

Your public school administrator suspends you for wearing a black armband to protest a war.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

Your public school principal says you can’t come to school as long as your hair is dyed purple.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

You do not wish to say the Pledge of Allegiance each morning and your principal expels you.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

You work in a restaurant. Your boss treats you unfairly and you write about what happened on your Facebook page. Your boss finds out what you wrote and fires you.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

Your parents won’t let you have a Facebook or Twitter account.

• Violation of your First Amendment Right

• NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right