What is the current state of the law regarding First Amendment rights?

That does not end the discussion, however. It has long been established that teachers and students have First Amendment rights. "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist. , 393 U.S. 503, 506, 89 S.Ct. 733, 21 L.Ed.2d 731 (1969). Plaintiffs contend that the District violated their First Amendment rights.