[af_vet_1981]

Now, why did you go make this political? Why do you assume that because I am on the side of authority and discipline that I'm a Clintonista?

Bill Clinton represented both authority and discipline when he told Juanita to put some ice on it.

The idea is actually oxymoronic. (BTW, per Miss Smith's example, I've just launched two coded insults at you.) Okay, since you want to splash around in the political pond, let's test your principles. What if Michael Scheuer started wearing a t-shirt around the CIA calling Tenet a political puppet?

If you are in leadership and have committed a crime that affects your ability to lead, you should step down.

Or what if a recruit at basic training decides his drill sergeant is an SOB and scrawls something to that effect on his shirt when he falls in for PT? How tolerant would you be of that? Or would you be part of the chorus proclaiming how richly they deserved what they got?

Public schools are not (yet) a government military environment but any DI who commits certain crimes should be disqualified from leadership.

[aQ_code_initiate]

Drop Clinton and quit your commie-baiting. I didn't vote for him and think he's a slimeball.

Oh, so you're advocating that the principal lose his job. Okay, that I can understand, although I disagree with your opinion, because the DUI hasn't affected his ability to do his job - and military leadership isn't in his job description. Miss Smith is merely a gadfly.

[motzman]

Well, well, well...as usual, there's more info available

"Tifton- At the Tift County School Board meeting Tuesday night, nothing about Hannah Smith and Principal Mike Duck was on the agenda, but you wouldn't have known it by the choice of clothing.

Students and staff piled in to support their principal, most of them wearing t-shirts with "We support Mr. Duck" printed on them.

This saga started when Mr. Duck disciplined several students for wearing clothing containing "anarchy symbols". In protest of what she saw as a violation of those student's "free speech" rights, 18 year old Junior, Hannah Smith wore a shirt to school that said Freedom of Expression on the front and Don't Drink and Drive on the back.

This may not sound like a particularly controversial message until it is understood that six years ago, the principal, Mr. Duck was arrested for DUI. Smith's shirt was thus meant to embarras Mr. Duck.

After Ms. Smith refused to remove the shirt, Mr. Duck suspended her for violation of the school dress code which states that clothing may not contain disruptive symbols.

Most of the students at the meeting supported Mr. Duck's decision "Because [they felt] that Mr. Duck was perfectly within his administrative rights to take disciplinary measures,".

Staff and students say their principal did the right thing. Smith wasn't at the meeting, but her mother did speak. Though most at the meeting were silently protesting against Ms. Smith, her mother thanked them, stating that, by wearing their protest shirts, they were "silently recogni[zing] what Hannah wants everyone to understand. You have the freedom of expression,"(Yeah, Right!)



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