Story: Local ACLU Joins Millard South Shirt Fight
Every day more and more students are facing 1-3 day suspensions for wearing a t-shirt that pays tribute to a classmate who passed away. Since it is well within the administrators rights to decide when and where teens can grieve and memorialize a friend, they plan to continue punishing these children for "disrupting the learning environment." On the other hand, the ACLU sees nothing offensive or distracting about the shirts, and plans to fight this case. In a related note, the school principal plans to spit on the grave of the fallen boy.
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Quit memorializing people killed in gang violence. Maybe if people realize that their lives are wasted by these killing, kids will turn away from gangs. Gangs worship slain members on their shirts and tattoos like they are religious icons.
^^That might be another issue. I still don't think it's fair to suspend students for wearing harmless shirts.
I think it's crazy that administrators today are unable to let students express any sort of opinion or even something as harmless as memory of a friend. It's bad enough that student can't wear what they want (to an extent, I agree with dress codes that are against disrespectful or inappropriate clothing) but a memorial is in no way disruptive...
As I found as a high school student, stupid rules that make no sense are what frustrate kids the most. For instance, at my school you couldn't wear pants with holes in them above the knee, though we could wear skirts that rode at about 6 in above the knee...This was during that big fad of holey jeans and it got people suspended...lame...what they need to be working on right now is getting kids to like school...
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