Quote:This isn't about political correctness, this is about zero tolerance. 

Quote:No, it's about PC.  If a shirt had this photo on it is it threatening?  Does it depict violence?

 

Quote:It's about zero tolerance because the school probably has some kind of policy banning depictions of violence and/or guns. And because people think zero tolerance is effective that gets applied to that policy as well leading wonderful instances such as this. The policy isn't necessarily wrong or right (much the same happens on TV and on this board), the zero tolerance application is.

Quote:You're both wrong. Not everything is a left wing PC conspiracy (you're losing it, JIB), nor is it a moral stand. This is about stupid people being stupid, because that's what stupid people do best.

 

Male cow feces.  First we have kids getting sent home or reprimanded because of t-shirts with a picture of a gun, even if they were children of military members wearing a military themed shirt, or happen to be a member of the NRA.  Then we have children being reprimanded for pointing their fingers in the shape of a gun, or even eating a pop-tart into the shape of a gun.  Now we have a kid being reprimanded for wearing a shirt themed after probably the most popular movie of the year depicting fictional characters and fictional weapons.

 

The only part of your comment that I agree with is that it's stupid people (left wing liberals) being stupid.  Common sense is gone.

 

Here is a hypothetical question for you (as you know, I love asking these types of questions).  Under the rules given in the report (specifically "symbols oriented toward violence" are banned), if a student is wearing a pendant of a crucifix, should that student be forced to cover it up?  What if a kid wore a t-shirt with the U.S. flag on it or perhaps the Gadsden flag?  Are these not all "symbols oriented toward violence"?  After all, a crucifixion is pretty violent as was the Revolutionary War.

 

This is all about PC and/or "zero tolerance" as far as the leftist point of view.  Specifically in this case, it is a middle school which I would assume would be teaching about the Revolutionary War, The Constitution and the Bill of rights.  If they are teaching correctly, the students should be learning about the First Amendment.

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