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53 Baylor L. Rev. 877 (2001)
At Daggers Drawn: The Confederate Flag and the School Classroom - A Case Study of a Broken First Amendment Formula

handle is hein.journals/baylr53 and id is 887 raw text is: AT DAGGERS DRAWN: THE CONFEDERATE FLAG AND THE SCHOOL CLASSROOM -A CASE STUDY OF A BROKEN FIRST AMENDMENT FORMULA James M. Dedman IV* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRO D UCTION .............................................................................. 877 II. CRY HAVOC: THE WAR OVER THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG ............................................ 880 III. MILK-AND-CIDER JURISPRUDENCE: THE RIGHTS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS ........................................................... 887 IV. DRIVING DIXIE DOWN: THE CONFEDERATE F LA G C A SES .................................................................................. 895 V. DEUS Ex MACHINA: THE BROKEN FRAMEWORK OF TINKER AND FRASER ...................................................................... 906 VI. THE PERILS OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY .......................................... 909 VII. REQUIEM FOR TINKER: AN ANALYSIS OF M UDDLED JURISPRUDENCE ........................................................... 914 VIII. THE QUESTION OF SPONSORSHIP .................................................. 916 IX. FRASER AND THE FORECAST OF DISRUPTIONS .............................. 919 X. THE SUBJECTIVE TRAP OF THE FRASER INDECENCY INQUIRY ..................................................................... 920 XI. CONCLUSION: THE TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD O F F RA SER ...................................................................................... 925 I. INTRODUCTION Beneath the desire to display the Confederate flag, claim some objecting to its exhibition, lurks a nostalgia for slavery and racial subordination. Resentful of that implication, defenders of the emblem maintain that the rebel flag represents the sanctity of those who perished in the Civil War. Retreating into this familiar rhetoric, each faction clings to its position with intractable and adamantine resolve. Today, the 'Candidate for J.D., Baylor University School of Law, February 2002; B.S. in Radio/Television/Film, University of Texas, 1998. Upon graduation, the author will serve as a clerk for the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, in Houston, Texas.

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