Posted on 04/30/2018 12:52:58 PM PDT by BBell
An Alabama teacher says school officials told her Monday to remove a shirt with the words “just pray” on it because the shirt violated the school dress code. Chris Burrell, who works as a teacher in the Mobile County School District, told WALA she wore the shirt to support a local 11-year-old girl diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor last year.
An organization called “Aubreigh’s Army” designed the shirt to raise money for the girl, Aubreigh Nicholas, who had been receiving treatment. The organization’s crowdfunding page for Aubreigh’s treatment raised $45,645 as of Saturday afternoon.
The school principal, allegedly unaware the shirt was to support a crowdfunding campaign, asked Burrell to go home and change her shirt to reflect the school’s dress code.
Mobile County School District Superintendent Martha Peek said Burrell’s shirt “violated” the dress code because it reflected “certain beliefs.”
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If the dress code does not allow this type of shirt, then she should not have worn it, IMHO.
If this shirt was okay, then think of all of the shirts that are created for causes we find offensive, which would also have to be allowed.
When I was in school, no writing of any sort was permitted.
I favor school uniforms.
After she removed the shirt, did she have to band-aid her breasts? Remember that episode of educational glory from a couple of wees ago?
Irrational animus toward religion noted. However, what the heck is a teacher doing wearing a t-shirt? What ever happened to professional dress?
How about publicizing the words quoted below from the Author of America's Declaration of Independence?
The things we are witnessing are the consequences of decades of Progressive academic and government "elitists'" indoctrination of America away from its founding principles in the ideas of liberty and toward the cultish and oppressive ideology of Progressivism, an ideology which demands complete submission to "progressive" regressives who believe they are entitled, and were appointed, to rule over everyone else. A society where Progressives rule is a society where the ideas of liberty have been subordinated to the ideas of tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson, only days before his death on July 4, 1826, explaining his inability to attend a gathering to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration, wrote to Roger Weightman:
"I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. may it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them." (Jefferson, June 24, 1826, to Roger Weightman, End of Jefferson quotation)
What ever happened to professional dress?.....Liberals?
Mobile County School District Superintendent Martha Peek said Burrell’s shirt “violated” the dress code because it reflected “certain beliefs.”
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If teacher was wearing a “Pride” shirt; you can be certain that nothing would have been said.
If teachers don’t abide by the dress code, then why should students?
The girl that would not wear a bra? I’m sure the boys approved.
I agree with you in general. The reason I say in general is because the schools tend to pick and choose what cause is deemed non-offensive.
More liberal fascism in our schools , training students to accept removal of their freedoms.
How can the state ban “certain beliefs”? I thought that was Unconstitutional....
After two weeks visiting in Alabama (Montgomery) I think it must be one of the most religious states in the country. Sad to hear about this; it seems religion is happily and openly expressed there.
She wore the shirt to support a local 11-year-old girl diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor last year.
She wore the shirt to support a local 11-year-old girl diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor last year.
J Geils — “I can’t do my homework, anymore.”
May be the Angel in the centerfold one day.
Principals make exceptions all of the time in Mobile schools for t-shirts. A good part of the time, principals will ignore religious themed shirts. This particular shirt was for Aubreigh Nicholas who has DIPG and has drawn attention from Nick Saban, a bunch of Major League Baseball teams, and others. DIPG has no cure as of yet. Just Pray is a reminder that we are in need of Divine Intervention as were the founders of this great country.
Teachers in Mobile regularly send emails asking for prayers. Martha Peak has been known to pray.
I find State of Auburn shirts offensive, but folks are allowed to wear them to school on the same days that Bama fans can wear their favorite Bama shirts. heh
Sounds like the superintendent could get a job in British healthcare. Meanwhile, they’ll replace that white woman with a Black man.
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