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Student Threatened with Suspension for Wearing "Homosexuality is Wrong" T-Shirt
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| 04/14/05
Posted on 04/17/2005 5:48:58 PM PDT by murphE
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:48:58 PM PDT
by
murphE
To: murphE
It is regrettable when parents have to choose which right their child will be deprived of - free speech or a public education," said Kevin Snider, Chief Counsel for PJI. Free speech is a right. Government education is a trap. Go for free speech, folks.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:55:31 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The Casserole with the Beans Again blues ...)
To: murphE
I guess this are also going to cause problems:
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:57:12 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
To: murphE
And if it said "Homosexuality is Supercalifragilisticexpialidociously Magnificent" the student would be automatically elevated to valedictorian, right?
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:59:34 PM PDT
by
GeekDejure
( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!! -- Impeach Greer !!!.)
To: murphE
I expect that a student who wore a 'Heterosexuality Is Wrong' t-shirt to school would have gotten the same treatment. My rule to my kids is that the 'message' t-shirts don't go to school. Wear 'em to sleep in, after school, all weekend, whatever, I don't care--just not to school. My message to my kids is that 'School is work' and you don't wear things that are inappropriate for the workplace to school.
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posted on
04/17/2005 6:06:18 PM PDT
by
elli1
To: EdReform
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posted on
04/17/2005 6:24:50 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(God Bless our beloved Pope John Paul II, Rest in Peace)
To: Born Conservative
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posted on
04/17/2005 6:25:40 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(God Bless our beloved Pope John Paul II, Rest in Peace)
To: murphE
Tinker vs. Des Moines, 1969, established that students "do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate". Unless the free expression through clothing is overtly violent or obscene, any regulation must be content-neutral. If other "message" T shirts are permitted this shirt must be permitted.
How anyone can complete the coursework and testing to become a school administrator without knowledge of this basic case is beyond me, but we see examples of such ignorance every December as some try to ban Christmas cards, candy canes, and "Merry Christmas".
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posted on
04/17/2005 6:42:38 PM PDT
by
lightman
(The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
To: murphE
To: murphE
"Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing"
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posted on
04/17/2005 7:24:52 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: elli1
I agree. This hullabaloo is ridiculous. The kid should be sent home to change clothes. That's why uniforms should be in all schools..they are there to learn, not share their opinions on t shirts. where are the parents? I support the teachers ( even if they are teaching at a government school) on this one all the way.
Maybe, just maybe, the kids will be able to make change when they graduate.
To: murphE
All well and good, but this is horrid journalism. No name of student, no name of school, no name of any school officials involved no dates (the date the article was written is irelevant) ... this entire article could have been invented out of whole cloth.
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:25:00 PM PDT
by
Dont Mention the War
(Proud Member of the WPPFF Death Cult - We're coming after YOU next!)
To: Dont Mention the War
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:29:40 PM PDT
by
murphE
(Never miss an opportunity to kiss the hand of a holy priest.)
Ping to self for later pingout.
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:30:19 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it.)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
THe story doesn't say (much of anything), but it could be that he wore this shirt on "homosexual" day at school (can't remember what it was really called). It was a day where everybody was supposed to be quied all day to show solidarity for homosexual rights. Many schools have teachers encouraging thier students to join, and I think theere are t-shirts and buttons.
If there are no t-shirts allowed with any pictures or words, I agree that none should be allowed.
Charles
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:34:08 PM PDT
by
CharlesWayneCT
(http://spaces.msn.com/members/criticallythinking)
To: lightman
A little discrimination should be in order. No political slogansin t-shirts.. I know that fifty years ago I could not have worn something like this in a school. Now something like a button. Maybe.
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posted on
04/17/2005 9:48:35 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(JMJ)
To: CharlesWayneCT
Good point. As a protest it should be allowed. School ought to be neutral.
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posted on
04/17/2005 9:49:36 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(JMJ)
To: RobbyS
"I know that fifty years ago I could not have worn something like this in a school."
No school I attended allowed T-shirts unless worn under a real shirt, which had to be buttoned and tucked in.
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posted on
04/18/2005 2:22:47 AM PDT
by
dsc
To: Tax-chick
> Free speech is a right. Government education is a trap. Go for free speech, folks. <
That is one of the very reasons my parents chose to homeschool me!
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posted on
04/18/2005 6:38:14 AM PDT
by
techgal
To: techgal
That's one reason we're homeschooling. There's no such thing as "value-neutral" education, and we want the values taught to be OURS.
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posted on
04/18/2005 7:57:11 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The Casserole with the Beans Again blues ...)
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