I have mixed feelings about the students wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam. Part of me feels like the suspensions were necessary, but another part of me thinks otherwise. I do not believe acts like these should be regulated because it would violate the constitutional rights of students' freedom of expression. After all, children have the same freedom of speech rights as adults under the First Amendment. Also, because there were so few armband wearers (about 5 out of the 18,000 students in the district), it did not cause any sort of uprising or disturbance on the school grounds. If it had resulted in violence or negative reaction of any kind, it would call for a definite regulation.