"...she is looking out for her child, but she caused the problem in the first place."
Aren't we mixing up a lot of things here? No one wants anyone to get knifed and I'm not comfortable with using kids in politics. But this is just a t-shirt. Maybe the mom shouldn't be making such a big deal out of it, but the same might be said for the principal. As others have said, there are a lot of little kids wearing "cute" little Italian, German, African, pick your ethnic group t-shirts.
I was mainly taken aback at the first poster's "bitch" comment.
i agree that the epithet was uncalled for, but clearly the mom was looking to accomplish something with that tshirt given the climate of this past week and the immigration hullabaloo. and the principals of these schools (did you see the graphic on FoxNews last week on this very story, the knifing in NoVA, that had it spelled principle??? oh LORD!) are looking to obviate problems by just saying NO to political message t-shirts. A kiss me I'm Irish t-shirt, unless we start having problems with undocumented irishmen rushing the borders, is never going to be a policital statement.