Posted on 06/04/2008 1:19:42 PM PDT by wintertime
A 12-year-old 6th-grader in Hutchinson, Minn., committed to an unusually brave mission for the month of April: he intended to wear T-shirts with a pro-life message to his middle school every day for a month.
His courage, however, was met with resistance. According to the boy's attorney, his principal and teachers told him "not to wear the T-shirts, publicly singled him out for ridicule in front of his classmates, removed him from class, sent him to the principal's office, forced him to turn his pro-life T-shirt inside out, and threatened him with suspension if he did not stop wearing the offending pro-life T-shirts."
Over the course of his one-month quest, the boy, identified only as K.B., was reprimanded by the school a dozen times. (snip)
K.B. began his T-shirt mission in honor of April 29th being designated "National Pro-Life T-shirt Day" by the American Life League, a group that calls itself the "largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States."
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K.B. reported that he was first confronted on April 2nd by a teacher saying that the shirt "could be offensive." On April 4th he was sent to the principal's office because, his teacher said, the shirt was "inappropriate for class." In mid-April, K.B.'s mother reports, the school principal told her in a phone conversation that the shirts were forbidden because they had become a distraction and "some of the kids were starting to ask questions." On April 25th K.B. was threatened with in-school suspension.
When April 29th arrived, the day designated as "National Pro-Life T-shirt Day," the school principal called K.B.'s homeroom and ordered the boy to his office. "Why do you keep wearing those shirts when you know that they annoy me?" the principal allegedly asked.
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Christians in Minnesota? Yeah, right.
But the 'do as I say, not as I do' mentality is painful when applied to a child.
As far as the school system goes - I don't know if they crossed the line. I don't know what their dress codes are, what other shirts have been banned, what the shirt in question looked like, or how true the articles are.
I asked a question for the mulling over.
“You seem to be making a lot of conclusions based on no evidence at all. See my questions to SoftballMom above. What are the chances she worked somewhere that she could wear a T-shirt? If so, what are the chances that her employer has a dress code that’s as lenient as the school’s?”
You want your kids to play social activist, that’s fine. Do it on your own dime. I think there is no place for it in public schools. It’s not your kid’s forum to preach anything.
I’ve already said the kid was within his rights. I am also pro-life. Like a good “activist”, that’s not enough for you is it? I actually have to agree with his immature methodology, too, right? Well, I don’t. T-shirt slogans and bumper-stickers are for the ignorant, which this child is. He’s 12. Ignorant is not an insult when referring to a 12-year-old, it’s a fact. A 12-year-old has no place lecturing anyone else, regardless of age, on reproduction or politics.
Yes, I think his parents were behind it. I often see similarly themed threads but featuring a kid with some lefty message. In every one of those threads most FReepers fault the parents. No different here.
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