Anti-Bush T-shirt banned at Michigan school (Teenage Red Alert)

CNN.com ^ | February 19, 2003 | CNN

[Jacob Kell]

DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) -- School officials ordered a 16-year-old student to either take off a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "International Terrorist" and a picture of President Bush and or go home, saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of students are Arab-American.

[Jacob Kell]

Is this little punk a member of A.N.S.W.E.R.?

[znix]

a class assignment in which he wrote a compare-contrast essay on Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

!!!!

[Az Joe]

The T-Shirt sounds like it would come under the "Fighting Words" doctrine and therefore would not be protected speech. And it is at a high school which has a lot more disgression in the restrictions it can place on it's students and their activities. IMHO

[byteback]

Been posted several rtimes.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/847071/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/846859/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/846856/posts

[bobi]

Back in school (long time ago) in Australia I did an essay on the Good and Bad point about Soviet Union under Stalin in the 1920s-1930s.

That was the topic for the whole class not just for me.

I got good marks.

And at University in my class there was a guy wearing a T-shirt NATO = North American Terrorist Organisation during the 1999 NATO invasion of Yugoslavia.

[Fixit]

Would there have been any media outcry if the student had been kicked out for wearing this?