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Seventh Grader Sues School Over Right to Wear Pro-Life T-Shirt
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| 7-6-09
| By Maxim Lott
Posted on 07/06/2009 2:01:59 PM PDT by rawhide
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The complaint quotes school district officials saying that they ordered Amador's daughter to remove the shirt because it constituted "inappropriate subject matter" in violation of the school's dress code, which bans clothing with "suggestion of tobacco, drug or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, vulgarity, or other inappropriate subject matter."![](http://www.foxnews.com/images/543335/0_63_070609_abortion3.jpg)
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:01:59 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
I agree with the school. Children should not be sent to school as walking billboards for any political cause, on the left or right.
To: rawhide
If abortion was no big deal then shirts like this wouldn’t cause an controversy.
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:06:21 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: reaganaut1
So where does that leave their ability to speak freely in any medium?
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:07:14 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
To: rawhide
On another note...why is she eating breakfast at school?
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:07:22 PM PDT
by
icwhatudo
(For every clinic bombed or burned, 17 to 18 churches are burned down. MSM? MSM?)
To: rawhide
“other inappropriate subject matter.”
In other words, whatever the education Nazis don’t like.
To: icwhatudo
Either uniforms, private education or home schooling will solve this problem.
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:08:20 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
To: reaganaut1
But, if schools tried to “oppress” someone wearing a “gay pride” shirt,
they’d be sued.
We’re just asking for equal time here.
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:08:29 PM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: rawhide
graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb. "Graphic"? Isn't that a word you use to describe something violent, immoral, or disgusting? What's a "fetus" supposed to do except grow?
Oh, that's right. Die.
To: rawhide
Graphic images? Sheet! These are standard images right out of a biology text book. The fascist method in which the administration handled this is good grounds for a lawsuit.
Even if they found the shirt offensive, there was no good reason to make the girl miss her breakfast and be manhandled to the office.
It is a major stretch to deem this T-Shirt has the "suggestion of tobacco, drug or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, vulgarity, or other inappropriate subject matter."
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:10:56 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: icwhatudo
Virtually all urban and many rural schools have FREE Breakfast and lunch for all students. Thank you for your generous contribution and help.
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:11:42 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: rawhide
inappropriate subject matter Who decides what is/isn't appropriate?
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:12:13 PM PDT
by
ninergold3
("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
To: rawhide
"Smith and Rohrer ordered Plaintiff to remove her pro-life T-shirt and instructed Plaintiff to never wear her pro-life T-shirt at McSwain Elementary School ever again. Do they cut pages out of the students' science textbooks as well?
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:13:33 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: icwhatudo
why is she eating breakfast at school? There are quite a few kids in before school care as both mom and dad work. Some of the programs are open as early as 6:30AM so the kids buy breakfast at school.
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:14:44 PM PDT
by
ninergold3
("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
To: reaganaut1
So these shirts should have been banned too?
![](http://www.blogsofrealplay.com/Members/Darkstar/archives/SuperObamaShirt.gif)
You wouldn't win that case in court.
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:14:48 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: Vigilanteman
or other inappropriate subject matter." Hello. It is politically incorrect. It comes down on the WRONG side of the issue.
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:15:51 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: reaganaut1
“I agree with the school. Children should not be sent to school as walking billboards for any political cause, on the left or right”
Do you think a Che Guevara shirt would cause the teachers to toss her breakfast, and then be detained?
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:16:33 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
To: Vigilanteman
Wonder if they'd send a girl home for wearing this:
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:16:49 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: LukeL
The shirt the girl was wearing displays two graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb. The pictures are "graphic?" Really? A child growing inside the womb is now graphic? Amazing.
To: rawhide
I usually agree with Judge Clarence Thomas.
He opined long ago that perhaps the best solution is to just out and out say “A kid doesn't have 1st amendment rights at school.”
At first I was appalled at this view. But slowly but surely I am coming around to it.
The law already states that the school is the de facto “parent” while the child is under their care. Parents DO exercise control over the actions, words, and dress of their children.
This would HOPEFULLY not be an example of the school telling kids what to think, or saying some views are allowed and others disallowed; it should just be a blanket “do that on your own time, you are here to learn right now, not teach, motivate, proselytize, politicize or propagandize.”
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posted on
07/06/2009 2:18:41 PM PDT
by
allmendream
("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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