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Fifth Grader Suspended For Wearing Anti-Obama Shirt
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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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Silly peons, don't they understand the leftist run the school. You don't have freedom of speach unless you have Leftist views. How could you say that about the GREAT LEADER and MESSIAH?? LOL
1 posted on 09/23/2008 8:21:19 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: jakerobins

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.”


2 posted on 09/23/2008 8:29:09 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman (Moshe Plesser - "I think I did what is expected from every soldier and citizen.")
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To: jakerobins

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.


3 posted on 09/23/2008 8:30:08 AM PDT by Kevmo (Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
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To: jakerobins
So the kid chose to use a day for patriotism to express displeasure at a Presidential candidate? And then, when give the choice between turning a shirt inside out or suspension, he chose suspension?

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.

4 posted on 09/23/2008 8:30:59 AM PDT by impeachedrapist (On Free Republic PBD [political bipolar disorder] rules!)
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To: jakerobins
My kids would wear a shirt like that.

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

5 posted on 09/23/2008 8:31:37 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: jakerobins
Here's the shirt the boy wore......Hysterical!


6 posted on 09/23/2008 8:37:02 AM PDT by thingumbob (McGenius-Palin beats Obomber-Hide'n (Remember, dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!))
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How much do you want to bet that if the kid wore a shirt that said "BUSH IS A WAR CRIMINAL" that they would put him on the honor role?!?!?

I hate liberals!

7 posted on 09/23/2008 8:38:21 AM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
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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.


8 posted on 09/23/2008 8:38:49 AM PDT by Bob J (For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one strikes at it's root.)
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“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.


9 posted on 09/23/2008 8:39:17 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: Bob J

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.


10 posted on 09/23/2008 8:40:09 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: jakerobins
I don't believe that 11 year olds in a school environment have inherent 1st Amendment rights. I would only look to an even handed application of the school or district rules. If the kid was punished because of political content unacceptable to the “liberal loons”, but similar leftist content is exempt then they have a cause for action. If there is a policy that states no political content at all, the suspension is justified.
11 posted on 09/23/2008 8:40:27 AM PDT by Natural Law
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How much do you want to bet that if the kid wore a shirt that said "BUSH IS A WAR CRIMINAL" that they would put him on the honor role?!?!?

And probably the honor roll, too! :-) Sorry, couldn't resist.......
12 posted on 09/23/2008 8:40:56 AM PDT by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: jakerobins

I love seeing we the people push back.


13 posted on 09/23/2008 8:41:17 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: impeachedrapist
...kids with anti-McCain and anti-Palin shirts were still allowed to roam the halls.

Would not surprise me. What about PRO-Obama shirts? Are they verboten, too?.....

14 posted on 09/23/2008 8:44:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (I'm gonna use "Sarah!" from NOW ON since Hillary uses "Hillary!"......)
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To: jakerobins

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.


15 posted on 09/23/2008 8:44:19 AM PDT by kitkat (EX DEO LIBERTAS (From God, liberty))
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To: day10
LOL! Well, I have a valid excuse: I went to publik skool public school!
16 posted on 09/23/2008 8:45:35 AM PDT by BullDog108 (Misspelling on FR for almost a decade!)
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To: 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.”

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...

17 posted on 09/23/2008 8:46:09 AM PDT by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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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.


18 posted on 09/23/2008 8:46:33 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: Bob J

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.


19 posted on 09/23/2008 8:46:35 AM PDT by JLS (Do you really want change being two guys from the majority of Congress with a 9% approval rating?)
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To: Manic_Episode

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.


20 posted on 09/23/2008 8:48:50 AM PDT by CriticalJ
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