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Ban all message clothing at secondary public schools. It is a distraction from the essential purpose of the place. Better yet, have uniforms. Call me a facist if you like. That is the way I see it. Folks can let it all hang out when they reach adulthood, and/or got to college. In the meantime, I don't hesitate in using the iron fist prudentially.

I don't think that your position makes you a fascist, but I don't agree with you. If we are to survive as a society, we must be able to distinguish between messages and ideas that are harmful and those that are not harmful. We must distinguish between that which we may find offensive but must allow and that which we are right to ban. While I don't think that students should make the rules, they need to learn to live in a world where those distinctions are made. They need to learn that they must be productive even though they don't like the "message" of their neighbor's life, clothing, etc..

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Bill

Scary to think your in the administration.

I don't agree with you, however that would be fairer than what is happening nowaday's. The minorities are allowed to frollick in their ethniticity & nationality while we are punished & ridiculed for ours and that is not acceptable. It's P.C. gone Amok!

Ban all message clothing at secondary public schools. It is a distraction from the essential purpose of the place. Better yet, have uniforms. Call me a facist if you like. That is the way I see it. Folks can let it all hang out when they reach adulthood, and/or got to college. In the meantime, I don't hesitate in using the iron fist prudentially. 17 posted on 01/06/2003 8:55 PM PST by Torie

WOWWW that is scary !... of course it does work well for the Chicoms doesn't it?.. In other words what your saying is an American citizen should not be afforded there rights until adulthood hey?...

Ban all message clothing at secondary public schools. It is a distraction from the essential purpose of the place. Ban all message clothing at secondary public schools. It is a distraction from the essential purpose of the place.

I don't think that would work in the public schools. The courts and lawyers wouldn't allow it.

There may be some public schools that require uniforms, but I'd be surprised. I doubt Clinton would have come out for uniforms in public schools if he thought it were at all possible to require them.

What you see here is my flag. I personally don't give a damn if blacks are offended by a piece of cloth (it only means they need to study history a little further), but to me it is an emblem of freedom. I am all for liberty and the right of a person to express themselves in any way they wish. The price of liberty isn't cheap and a thicker skin and live and let live attitude are what is needed here. We don' need no stinkin' governmental (autocratic) school board "controls" on todays youth's ideology. We definitely don't need them being mass indoctrinated by the government about "proper thinking and sensitivity"! That sounds like Marxism is alive and well and living here in America. The kids need to be educated about liberty and what it exactly means. What the duties of a citizen of this republic are. PC'ism is what you are espousing with your opinion because it puts all control in the hands of the state. You want to live in this country and enjoy its freedoms, you have to be ready to allow others to do the same ... even if you don't like what they are wearing on their tee-shirts. I spent 20 years protecting their right to do so.

Uniforms don't work. The students still have a way to express their individuality. They'll have their own styles of uniforms and they'll just bring the messages to their bookbags and other items. Not arguing the constitutionality of uniforms, just their effectiveness.