Kids backs are not bill boards, issue already settled by courts.
No offense, but since when do kids get to make political statements about abortion at school? This kid is being used as a political pawn. Put a solid shirt on the kid, get her back to school and learning, and stop fighting these battles through your kids, you jackball.
"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."
Amador claims in the legal complaint that other students at the school have been allowed to wear expressive shirts, and she blames the school for “inconsistently applying their Dress Code based upon subjective determinations as to which messages are acceptable and which messages are not.”
Ridiculous. I am pro-life but to have my kids wear a tee shirt with a baby on it and then a dark block is not something I would do. Uniforms would fix this in a heartbeat. I really wish they would just throw on uniforms for all kids. We don’t have these problems at Catholic School. Oh by the way, kids were pro-abortion tee shirts too...How ridiculous.
If the school district advocates abortion as a viable option through its sex ed curriculum, and the child does have a pro-life view of the world (I know my soon to be 7th grader does), then she has every right to wear a pro-life shirt, as the school opened the door to discussion on the matter.
Now, as to whether having fetus’s emblazoned across the front of the shirt, that is another matter.
Personally, I’d wager the mom is right that the district, or at least different district officials, applies the dress code unevenly and that she has a case there. I’ve seen it multiple times where an administrator/teacher abuses their position to push an agenda, while using it to stifle opposition. Most of the time, it’s the liberals who abuse this trust.
In Loco Parentis
Since when do kids in school have rights? Can a kid just start ranting in any class at any time? Can a kid just come and go as he pleases? Are kids not punished without a trial?
> two graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb
Interesting choice of words. Pictures of aborted babies might well be considered graphic, but there’s nothing graphic about seeing a whole fetus in utero.
After reading the majority of the comments posted on this, I am getting a much better understanding of why our Constitution has become just so much old, yellowed, paper.
“Schools have a lot more authority than the government does in regulating speech...” was one quote from the article. It’s a PUBLIC school, for God’s sake! It IS the freaking government. You all act like a school is some all-powerful entity that we dare not question. Here you have a middle school student, without her parents being notified, being intimidated and abused (by a lackey clerk, no less), three on one. When you’re OK with the government controlling your children this way, as adults they will be so used to it they won’t know anything else. We’ll have become a totalitarian state without lifting a finger to stop it.