The classroom is a highly structured environment. Slogans and radical dress styles disrupt the experience and help hobble the ability to learn.
Disrupters and sloganeers are quick and pat at getting around dress rules. Gang colors, style of shoes, pins, extra short skirts, extra long legs on short pants — anything can become s disruptive message at times. A Principal has to be given the authority to make judgment calls, withing a broadly, not specifically framed policy.
Ckassrooms are not romantic places, there is no tolerance for dreamy ideals. Let the kids learn, and not be tossed into chaos.
Hooray for the school or district that has kids so self-controlled and mature that no rules or ad-hoc Teacher’s or Principal’s actions against such disruptions are needed, or in which what would be disruptive dress in a more agitated group of kids can be allowed! But do not imagine that the uncommonly high-standard group is the norm. Our popular culture trains and encourages the kids to be disruptive, to be disrespectful.
Yes - especially the current administration which attempted to insert itself directly into the classroom with a set of premeditated “lesson plans”, that if not for responsible parents, would have sailed through without a peep.
When this government stops with pushing their policy oriented agenda in the classroom, then our kids can feel free to stop their “disruptive” form of response to this indoctrination.
Until the bias is put into check, the t-shirt slogans will continue from the christian right.
[The classroom is a highly structured environment.]
First, you obviously have not been in a high school classroom in several years! They are NOT highly structured environments!
More importantly, no other children complained nor was “disruption” the cause for the trip to the Principal’s office. It was a BAD judgment call by a teacher and the Principal; one they should have never made!
[...there is no tolerance for dreamy ideals. Let the kids learn, and not be tossed into chaos.]
Good idea, so are you advocating that we get rid of teaching evolution in the classroom? Do you think that sex-education to teenagers isn’t chaotic (let me tell you - it IS extremely chaotic)!!
[...to be disrespectful.]
And then you go all the way off the reservation by comparing this shirt to being “disrespectful.” Really? Are you serious? It isn’t like he was wearing a dress and pumps (which I am certain that the school would expect everyone to accept as his “natural” expression of himself) - he wore a shirt that the teacher and Principal didn’t like - PERIOD.