I agree with the school. Children should not be sent to school as walking billboards for any political cause, on the left or right.
If abortion was no big deal then shirts like this wouldn’t cause an controversy.
On another note...why is she eating breakfast at school?
“other inappropriate subject matter.”
In other words, whatever the education Nazis don’t like.
"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.
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."
Who decides what is/isn't appropriate?
Do they cut pages out of the students' science textbooks as well?
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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A fetus in a womb is graphic huh? How about a picture after it’s had it’s brain sucked out?! Would that be more appropriate?
I think conservatives should wear whatever necessary to upset the administration into over reacting.
By using their own rules against them ( using Saul Alinsky techniques) we can squander resources and time, generate publicity, delegitimize the schools, and further drive government schooling into a deeper pit ineffectualness.
I once ordered a Marine who showed up for field day formation in a T-shirt that said “It’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand” to go change it and that until he did field day would not commence and everyone would remain in formation until he returned. The next day he and I were standing in front of my CO (who was black) and he asked me if I was a racist and if he thought the other Marine was a racist to which I responded...”No Sir, I thought the shirt was racist in nature and in my mind was inappropriate attire for a Marine to wear”. To which he responded “Good answer”. I was dismissed and a conversation ensued between my CO and the other Marine behind closed doors. At the next morning formation the other Marine offered a formal apology to everyone present. I never saw the shirt again.
A more direct message to really piss them off could have said,
Growing - Growing - Murdered
That's "graphic"?? What happens during an abortion is graphic. That is a picture of a baby!
Me thinks some of the educator’s have had abortions and disliked being reminded that they killed someone.
OTOH, if there is a blanket ban on political commentary in dress, I'm with the girl.
'Graphic' pictures of a fetus in the womb. Gee, you kind of wonder what kind of health and biology classes this school has. A society that declares photos of a growing baby 'obscene' is a society that's not going to last.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287358,00.html
"On Monday, the court said schools could regulate student expression if it advocated illegal drug use. Justice Samuel Alito cautioned that schools could not censor political speech."
