Wonder if they would have a problem with this shirt?
Posted on 04/28/2005 7:36:38 PM PDT by beaversmom
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Two students at Roosevelt High School say their rights were violated when they were asked to remove their T-shirts.
Sisters Brittany and Tamera Chandler said Tuesday was Pro-Life Day, so they wore T-shirts with a picture of an unborn baby and the phrases, "She hears, kicks and feels pain" and "Abortion kills kids."
"I figured it would open some people's eyes ... that abortion is wrong," said Tamara Chandler, a senior.
Anita Micich, principal of Roosevelt, said students became upset about the shirts and a concerned teacher referred the girls to the office. Officials then asked the girls to cover the shirts or remove them, NewsChannel 8 reported.
The girls removed their shirts but Brittany Chandler said she fought the decision.
"I don't see what the problem is. I'm standing up for what I believe," Brittany Chandler said.
Micich said the shirts were an issue of disrupting the educational environment and not an issue of expression of freedom.
Chuck Hurley, of Iowa Family Policy Center, said the disruption had to be substantial and material.
"It can't just be offensive," he said.
Supporters of the girls compared the case to Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court said students do not leave their free speech rights at the school door.
"Students don't shed constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate," Hurley said.
The girls, who say they were threatened with suspension, said they want an apology. School officials denied the allegation.
Obscenities on T-shirts in some schools would be perfectly acceptable, however.
Yes, it most certainly does.
I guarantee the scumbag teachers were more offended than anybody, and all they needed was one scumbag student to say something so they would have an excuse to reprimand the sisters.
God bless these students. I hope they sue somebody.
I am as pro-life as anyone on this board and support the sisters right to wear the t-shirts.
Yet,if we are intellectually honest,we cannot object when leftist students wear pro-ABORTION t-shirts.
Wonder if they would have a problem with this shirt?
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