The Poarch Creeks are good for the grand.
Sounds like she’s guilty, but ‘tis a shame.
Smart girl. She didn't sign the contract.
The school administrators are too dim to understand that a contract you did not sign is not enforceable.
Unfortunately, she is going to be awarded a lot of school district money someday.
“I MUST wear an eagle feather to prove that I am distant and separate from the citizenry of the United States of America that provided me the free education we are celebrating.”
Wel, bye!
She was warned and chose to ignore it.
She says she has no regrets.
End of story.
17 years old. Contract? How enforceable is that anyway?
What is the legality of the school levying a fine, or withholding her diploma?
I’d be inclined to take this to court.
Some folks think they are above the rules. If you break them there are penalties. Big deal, you are an Indian, no one cares.
The performance of public school officials constitute an excellence nadir - below which sentient life cannot exist.
She has to fork over $1,000 for a piece of paper? You can’t tell me that if a future employer or school requests her high school information from the state that they would say she didn’t graduate. This is extortion and a perfect example of how the schools “manage what they can.”
What if someone wanted to wear a Confederate flag, however small, to honor their Southern heritage?
Chelsey and Escambia Academy. Equality of boneheadedness.
I have all of their albums.
>> Ala., makes its students and staff sign a pre-graduation contract agreeing not to wear “extraneous items during graduation exercises unless approved by the administration.” <<
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How can arbitrary, and thuggish fiat actions like this be lawful?
We are not supposed to be a regimented society, and personal touches should be encouraged, not punished.
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I have to go to graduation evey year. It is a race to the bottom for poor behavior by students and parents.
She knew the rules but the “please look at me!” Attitude of our modern culture couldn’t be denied. She willingly paid the price though now she seems to be ready to place the race card. Unless someone else got to wear something extra and she didn’t, case dismissed.
"Do not be misled . . . by an old collectivist trick which goes like this: there is no absolute freedom anyway, since you are not free to murder; society limits your freedom when it does not permit you to kill; therefore, society holds the right to limit your freedom in any manner it sees fit; therefore, drop the delusion of freedom—freedom is whatever society decides it is.
It is not society, nor any social right, that forbids you to kill—but the inalienable individual right of another man to live. This is not a “compromise” between two rights—but a line of division that preserves both rights untouched. The division is not derived from an edict of society—but from your own inalienable individual right. The definition of this limit is not set arbitrarily by society—but is implicit in the definition of your own right.
Within the sphere of your own rights, your freedom is absolute."
That last line is worth rembering.
A graduation ceremony is intended to honor a group of people who’ve all gone through a required curriculum successfully, not to be a platform for displays of individual ethnic or other characteristics.
Every occasion doen’t have to be open to every display of personal expression the invidual participants might ‘feel’ like induling in. The girl can wear her feather during her personal time for the rest of her life if she so chooses. This was not an occasion for her to draw individual attention to herself.
Lawyers are are descending on Atmore even as we speak..........About 100 miles from here.......
Oh for Heaven’s sake. That’s utterly absurd. What moron runs that school?
I think it is illegal to even posses an eagle feather. I seem to remember hearing that from an Indian friend a few years back.