Posted on 11/05/2016 11:00:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
by Maya Chung - Inside Edition A two-time cancer survivor violated his school’s dress code when he wore a cancer "survivor" t-shirt.
Tyler Powers, 16, who attends Ridgewood High School in Florida, was told by his teacher to go to the in-school suspension room because he violated the school’s new dress code policy that says logos on student’s t-shirts can’t be larger than a quarter.
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Powers was wearing American Cancer Society Relay for Life “survivor” t-shirt.
He had three options. He could stay in ISS (in-school suspension), call his parents to bring him a new shirt, or use a shirt that the school gives him until the end of the day.
Powers chose to use a school shirt.
“I have purple Ridgewood shirt. I assumed the shirt I grabbed that morning was a school shirt,” Powers told InsideEdition.com. “I was extremely disappointed in the staff, anyone who has been at the high school for two weeks knows that I am a two-time leukemia survivor.”
Powers was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia when he was 5 years old and cured at age 7, but later relapsed and was cured again at age 10.
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Ha! Liberals are soul-dead.
The difference between bureaucrats and cockroaches is only the number of legs.
They make good drones.
Thank God she would have "listened empathetically" before telling him that he was suspended.
Is it wrong for schools to have dress codes?
How about businesses?
How about the military? Perhaps the military should accommodate those for whom “olive is just not my color”.
The school had a reasonable way to resolve the problem: The school provided a shirt for the day which complied with the dress code. Problem solved. Why is this news?
Teenagers tend to express their rebellion by how they dress and groom themselves. Historically this rebellion has been a source of a lot of destructive influences in this nation.
Today, however, a large percentage of the public school are run in a gestapo style where fundamental liberties are ignored and, instead of education, kids get brainwashed. That IS something to rebel against. That’s rebellion against tyranny.
This ought to be news if the kid had to face detention or it affected his grades, etc. As it is, it’s a nothing burger. Not newsworthy.
It’s awesome he survived cancer. It’s no reason not to require him to change shirts when he mistakenly brought the wrong one to school.
I agree. He wore an incorrect shirt. A correct shirt was provided. End of story.
One might argue that there should not be “correct” and “incorrect” shirts for the school, but that way lies institutional chaos. A line will be drawn somewhere.
It's also no reason for him to think the dress code does not apply to him.
What First-World problem was being solved by this dress code restriction on the size of logos on shirts at this school? Whatever it is, I find the entire incident to be blazingly stupid and I award the administration no points.
The lawyer problem. If the school has no restrictions on dress, they will, without question, have girls showing up dressed like Kim Kardashian and boys wearing t-shirts that say "Suck My D***, B****!"
When schools try to make rules to prevent this, they are threatened with lawsuits for viewpoint discrimination. In order to maintain decency without saying so, exactly, they have to come up with some kind of arbitrary point, such as "logo size."
FWIW Based on the article I’m curious what the school’s definition of ‘logo’ is.
Are we talking any graphic design, or the actual ‘logo’ of some company?
Is a picture of Old Faithful and “Yellowstone National Park” a logo?
Seems like you’ve pretty much eliminated any ‘logo’. I mean, I don’t think the IZOD gator would fit under a quarter.
And what about the school’s logo on the shirts you buy at the bookstore?
Or a football jersey? Are the numbers and school/athlete name considered a logo?
Sorry, I’ve been up all night and I’m bored.
“I have purple Ridgewood shirt. I assumed the shirt I grabbed that morning was a school shirt,”
Sports uniforms worn while playing a sport are irrelevant to dress for the classroom.
(When I was a high school student, you couldn't buy a bunch of school-branded merchandise.)
And lawyers are concerned about logo size exactly how???
Dress codes to maintain decorum that keep the school from looking like a dive bar get a thumbs-up from me. Logo size...not so much.
That's the point. They have to use an inherently meaningless rule in order to avoid being sued for "discrimination."
Prohibiting clothing choices because they are vulgar, provocative, disgusting, profane, blasphemous, gross, etc., etc., involves personal judgment on the part of administration. Schools are threatened with lawsuits when they use personal judgment. If they told this young man that he could wear his Leukemia Foundation race t-shirt, on what objective, consistently applicable, unvarying basis could they prohibit shirts with any other messages?
Does this make any sense? No, it doesn't, but it's the situation in our first-world schooling establishments.
Sports uniforms worn while playing a sport are irrelevant to dress for the classroom.
At my high school and our kids high school’s a lot of kids wore school football jerseys on game day, again the ones you could buy at the school store.
I went to school in the 60’s and our kids in the 80’s, all at different schools, and every one had a school store where you could buy jersey’s, school shirts, pretty everything labeled with the school ‘logo’ and name.
I never saw that until college, which I began in 1984. You must have lived somewhere that was more advanced in marketing.
You must have lived somewhere that was more advanced in marketing.
Alabama??
I went to school in Virginia, which, as they say, is always 50 years behind the real world.
“It’s also no reason for him to think the dress code does not apply to him.”
I don’t think anything he did indicates he thinks it does not apply to him. The article quotes him as being disappointed with the school. He also said he grabbed the wrong shirt by mistake. He was not trying to break the rules or ignore them.
His father also pointed out how the school policy is not the “standard county uniform”. He thinks it is set by the whim of the principle.
The uniform rule was also recently implemented.
I worked for a school district for several years. I have seen first-hand students being treated like criminals for minor issues and mistakes like this boy made. It appears that is why the boy and his father are unhappy with what happened.
But, again, not really newsworthy. At least not beyond the local community.
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