Posted on 09/23/2008 1:40:26 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
AURORA, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado fifth-grader says he's been suspended from school for wearing a homemade T-shirt that said "Obama is a terrorist's best friend."
Daxx Dalton and his father, Dann Dalton, say his First Amendment rights were violated.
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::sniff::
Any guesses as to when the aclu will come to his aid? /s
If the shirt had said McCain he would never had been suspended. The Liberal goons do run our schools.
Dad probably knew too that this would happen.
If he wants to make a statement he should do so himself, not put a 5th grader in the middle of it.
WAAAaaa!
Image of the offending T-Shirt at the link.
I wouldn’t have a problem with the school trying to avoid political controversy with a neutral rule banning political paraphrenalia in general, but I suspect, cynically perhaps, that the school’s problem with his shirt was that it didn’t support the right candidate. Colleges, and school’s which are strongly influenced by the NEA, afirmatively promote leftist politics while censoring dissenting viewpoints.
If the T shirt said “Bush lied” or “Buck Fush”, he would be made class president...
LOL, here, take my hankie.
This thread will be interesting to watch. I believe in the first amendment. It seems to me that if you allow this sort of thing in the fifth grade, pretty soon you have all sorts of shirts saying all sorts of extremely vile things.
Is it a good thing to escalate this type of thing to this level in the fifth grade?
On the one hand, it would open the eyes of kids to all sorts of issues they might not otherwise be aware of. It would also cause them to be floating in a sea of extreme accusations which are hard enough even for adults to sort out, and at a time when they would be years away from voting.
I’m not a big fan of activist shirts in the fifth grade.
I’m sure the teachers think it’s just fine to indoctrinate these kids into the globalist green and sexual preditor’s world though.
This is bullcrap..
A 5th grader?? Come on? The only thing he knows about terrorists is what he gets from his Dad. I would bet that this is a case of a child being used by a parent to make a poltical point or worse.
Conservative and religious children have it tough enough in the Government schools without people doing this sort of thing.
Or, maybe schools are for learning, not politicking.
Just sayin’.
But, who the hell names their kid Daxx?
A Deep Space Nine “Trekkie”.
C’mon now, our candidate for VP has chosen interesting names for her children.
Exactly. Thank you.
The article does not say that the school has a dress code, but dress codes have been upheld by the courts many times for this very reason.
The public have an interest in students behaving and dressing in a manner that is least likely to cause disruption to the learning environment.
I can't fault the administration for short-circuiting that.
I wish we had a pic of dad, as my guess is that he looks every bit the ahole that he acts like. The sentiment belongs to dad, as 5th graders rarely have an independent set of political beliefs. So either dad told him what to write, or he wrote what he heard dad say. And genius father allowed him to wear it to school, perhaps thinking it was funny.
Thank God that most of us were not raised by parents who were so weak and powerless that they needed to live through us, their children.
Father of the year not in the cards for this particular doofus.
I have four kids in public school. I also subbed and taught.
You wouldn’t believe the “socialist education” that these kids are getting from the “book publishers” integrating socialist causes in the books.
For example: integrating subjects. Math and English. Doing Math Problems using writing skills. Word Problems.
My kids pointed out the stuff to me, then I scanned the books.
Math: question about how many acres of the rainforest are being destroyed by first-world countries (for the US and Europe) on a yearly basis depriving the Earth and the native populations of natural resources, blah blah.
These types of questions go on and on. In the history books, history is being rewritten.
This is the chicken or the egg question: Who and What is driving the curriculum, book publishers, NEA, or both?
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