Merrillville schools ban pink clothes

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/133722-1992-103.html ^

[Stew Padasso]

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. -- Officials have banned pink clothing for the remainder of the school year out of concerns that the color has become associated with gang activity.

Administrators last week told students at the city's high school and two middle schools to avoid wearing pink clothing or accessories, said Michael Berta, associate superintendent in the Northwestern Indiana district.

[ladyinred]

Uh oh, I wear my favorite color Pink all of the time. :-)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I thought this must be totally bogus, but I looked up Merrillville on Mapblast and there is such a place. Heaven help us.

Does read kinda like something out of The Onion.

[Stew Padasso]

You could start your own gang and loiter with homies at the Casual Corner in the mall.

[Stew Padasso]

Turn yourself into the authorities you hooligan.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Do you have to be stupid to become a school administrator?

Maybe they use goop left over the the formula used to create liberal politicians...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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A big, PINK ping to y'all. Maybe this school needs a pink campaign, as in sending them pink paraphernalia or pink greeting cards or some such...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

What are they going to do about the pink triangles that the alternative lifestyle types want plastered around the school?

They'll jutht uthe rainbow patcheth, thilly!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Gays could just use high-powered ammo, thilly!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Big pink PING (this time for real)!

[4mycountry]

Yeah right. Gays don't have enough "stuff" to handle the kind of weapons it takes to use high-powered ammo.

[nina0113]

Oh hello. This year's fashion colors are pink and black. Though I'd ban BOYS from wearing pink at all times.

[hookman]

It sounds like the school is training kids harder and harder every year.
No coats (in the building), No backpacks, No pink...
Not to say that there is no such thing as a pink thug or that school rules are not important but I think they're doing their best to get the masses used to a way of thinking, that way they can have total control. So once all the students earn their degrees and meet the "real world" they are used to "the way things are".
I never made it past my junior year of high school.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I never made it past my junior year of high school.

You must go for your G.E.D. so that you can be certified as properly indoctrinated.

[SavageRepublican]

At my house, a pair of red socks got thrown in the wrong laundry load by accident, and turned all of our underwear pink.

Too bad I didn't keep any of it...I could have sent it to this dumbass school administrator so he could wear it over his head!

[Yardstick]

Yep, a classic for sure (both the show and that episode). My memory's a little sketchy, but it seems like they had a "rumble" at the end.

[TBP]

My niece could never attend this school. She inherited her grandmother's (my mother-in-law's) taste for anything pink (except politics.) We're constantly having to buy them pink clothes, pink patterned china (Royal Doulton), tea rose, etc.

[hookman]

Actually I passed my GED test one month after quitting school. I missed out on the old cap and gown routine, but graduated a year and a half earlier than the others.

I'm not saying that students don't learn from school and everyone gets brain washed into conformity...or am I? Anyway, I believe that it is up to the parents to teach their children "how" to learn. And that it is the school's responsibility to provide the resources to learn. And the teachers responsibility to guide their students and pass knowledge onto them.
In reality there are things that stop it from working out this way...money, room, teachers...I think it's convenient "they" have problems like this to hide "their" ulterior motives behind... we'll see what the next ten years is like.