Posted on 09/23/2008 8:21:17 AM PDT by jakerobins
An 11-year-old boy in Colorado was suspended from school after he refused to take off a shirt that read, “Obama is a terrorist’s best friend.” His father says that the school is violating his son’s First Amendment rights.
Daxx Dalton, a fifth grader at Aurora Frontier K-8 School in Aurora, Colo., wore the homemade shirt on a day when students were asked to show their patriotism by wearing red, white and blue, according to MyFOXColorado.com.
When he was given the choice of turning the shirt inside out or being suspended, Dalton chose suspension.
“They’re taking away my right of freedom of speech,” he said. “If I have the right to wear this shirt I’m going to use it. And if the only way to use it is get suspended, then I’m going to get suspended.”
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The best quote was from the kid’s father. “It’s the public school system. Let’s be honest, they’re a bunch of liberal loons.”
We need to get the principal’s phone number, address, email address, etc. so that we can let him know what the first amendment is all about. We also need the same info on the local school board, board of supervisors or whatever it is. Phone numbers are best because they register immediately.
Can't say I have a problem with how the school handled this, unless kids with anti-McCain and anti-Palin shirts were still allowed to roam the halls.
They believe that Obama will make them go to school 12 months a year.
While I didn't tell them that, I haven't done much to disabuse them of that notion.
Owl_Eagle
There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy
I hate liberals!
If the kid had a shirt that said “Buck Fush” I wonder what people on this thread would be saying.
Many schools have rules about wearing shirts with slogans as they tend to instigate altercations between students and disrupt the school and learning environment. As long as the rules are equally enforced I don’t have a problem with it.
This school was having a “patriotic day”, doesn’t sound very liberal to me.
“It’s the public school system. Let’s be honest, they’re a bunch of liberal loons.”
Well, dad, remove you child from the loony institution. You would never give your son poison, would you? That’s what you’re doing if you leave the child in a school you admit are run by nuts.
Public institutions of government education have been used for indoctrination of socialist/communist ideology for decades. If a parent is able, they should remove their children now.
Communist Goals as stated by Cleon Skousen in “The Naked Communist”:
#17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
I hate to say it but these kinds of shirts should be left at home, school is for learning, if you don’t like it, then home school.
I love seeing we the people push back.
Would not surprise me. What about PRO-Obama shirts? Are they verboten, too?.....
Quote from the school:
***Dalton’s suspension was for willful disobedience and defiance, not for wearing the shirt.***
So, they say that it’s alright for the kid to wear the shirt, but they told him to take it off.
If it was OK for him to wear it, then why did they tell him to take it off?
Typical liberal double talk.
Edgy... the other kids will love it even if they don't understand it. Any kid that can push the school admins' buttons the way this one has, especially with all this outside publicity, will become the new Fonz...
Just like they’ll say the gov’t won’t shoot you for not paying your taxes.
They’ll just shoot you when you refuse to surrender your property.
Afterall we can not expect schools to teach kids to be tolerant of other views, particularly on patriotic day. And of course schools can not be expected to stop or head off altercations or punish the instigator.
Unless there was a policy limiting political attire before hand, the school will probably have to pony up some cash. They can see it was agitating other, but will need to prove the enough students were agitated that it warranted stepping on the first amendment.
I am sure they will never ban political attire in general since they probably distribute shirts for the left wing.
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