Credit to Maddox, because he'll whine if I don't.
Posted on 12/14/2005 12:37:01 AM PST by Tzimisce
LANSDALE, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania student is off the hook after the American Civil Liberties Union defended his right to wear a political T-shirt to school.
Chris Schiano's T-shirt said "International Terrorist" and had a picture of President Bush.
A security guard at his high school north of Philadelphia told him to take it off. He refused.
Schiano says he's well versed in the First Amendment. He says he "knew right off they had no legal footing to stand on."
The principal says after hearing from the ACLU, school officials realized that the shirt, while potentially offensive, didn't violate the school's dress code. It had no references to sex, drugs, ethnic intimidation or explicit language.
Schiano says he's now wearing the shirt to school and no one's given him a hard time.
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I predict he'll get his a$$ whipped inside of a week.
Would you?
Credit to Maddox, because he'll whine if I don't.
It was neither a suit (as posted) or a battle (as posted in the original article). It was basically a security guard and principal overreacting. These are the kind of dumb moves that earn bad press. Didn't the principal know his/her own policies before the ACLU called?
Let him wear it. It's high school. He'll grow up, eventually.
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." --Winston Churchill
My grandson, who is 9 years old, wore a t-shirt to school that said "Drugs kill" and they made him take it off, said because it said "drugs" on it, but they hand out ribbons & other things that say "Don't do drugs" that he brings home from school!
Only if the ACLU allows it!
ACLU is a four-letter word.
We should have shirts that say "Don't do Liberalism"
or
This is your brain on liberalism and have an aborted fetus pictured.
Considering the intellectual level of liberals these days, I'd say that the age of 30 is a little steep. Perhaps 12 would be more appropriate.
I bet his parent is a lezbo.
If I can wear a t-shirt defaming the POTUS, then I can wear one defaming any public person. But as you correctly noted, wearing one defaming the "wrong" i.e. politically correct person would get you thrown in jail for a hate crime. The decision of the court is absurd... as usual.
Every kid--with few exceptions--takes on the religion of his childhood from his/her parents.
Catholic families produce Catholic kids; Lutheran families produce Lutheran kids. Hindu families produce Hindu kids.
What is novel in your post?
Somehow I imagine that the ACLU would not have defended a kid wearing a t-shirt with an image of Hilary and the caption of Ms. Pol Pot.They probably would. They aren't stupid. That's what makes them dangerous when wrong.
But this time, they weren't.
-Eric
As for T-shirts, there is a constant hassle over them. I don't understand why school don't simply enforce a dress code, no T-shirts. There is no reason students should show up dressed in T-shirts or other costumes.
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