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Your assertion here is to question nothing, accept everything, and just go with it lest you be left behind by the other apathetic submissives.
I wholeheartedly disagree with your mentality.
There is nothing submissive about having common sense. There are always going to be disagreements and there will always be appropriate ways to handle a disagreement. Saying and doing whatever you feel like just because you can is not going to get you far in life (unless you're filthy rich or famous).
People are looking at this from the 8th grader vs the public school teacher perspective but what about when you're in college and you disagree with the grade, do you question the teacher about it in the middle of the classroom or do you go to their office hours? What about when you start working and you're in a meeting when your boss says something you disagree with, do you right there on the spot voice your opinion and refuse to do it or do you wait until after the meeting and ask to speak with your boss privately?
I have said several times I think the school was wrong in the way they handled this but I also think it was wrong for the student to refuse to do what he was asked to do.
I disagree with the policy, but schools, have the authority to establish what people can wear to school, and what they cant be. My son was suspended in kindergarten for drawing a picture of a gun, and when I asked him why he did it, he told me that it was just a photo and couldnt harm anyone, so I left it at that.. Was the school wrong, clearly, but when it comes down to no tolerance, it is what it is..
I drew a picture of Union soldiers carrying rifles for a book report project in elementary school.
the school may say it was the picture of the gun that was the problem not the actual words. Unless I read your link wrong it looks like SC said the words were fine but not the pictures. I am reading on my cell tho so I might have misunderstood that.
The pictures one was pertaining to illegal drugs. A picture of something legal is a different matter.
One doesnt need to read any further than the title of the thread to know what happened
here, I'll key slow for you
Student
suspended
arrested
over
gun
tshirt
Schools have had this policy for a very long time..
over having firearms in school yes, but not for expressing their 1st Amendment right of free speech. having a firearm on a t-shirt is not being violent. when my daughters used to go to public schools, they wore shirts with firearms on them all the time and nothing ever came of it.
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