Quote: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.
I have no problem with schools setting policies against clothing, backpacks, lunch boxes, accessories, whatever that depict a realistic firearm on them. I wouldn't necessarily push for those policies in a school district that my hypothetical kid went to, but I wouldn't be standing outside screaming, "How dare you not let my son wear a shirt with a gun on it to school!". Being a child of an NRA members has jack [BLEEP] all to do with it, and even being a military child shouldn't qualify the kid for special treatment under existing dress codes. Isn't being treated exceptionally kind of counterintuitive to the whole mindset of the military?
I'm not even going to touch the left wing comment, because I could point to a dozen instances of the Trump Party unilaterally having its way while liberals screamed. Not going to waste my breath on it, though. Both sides are convinced that they're morally in the right, especially when they're morally in the gray.
Your hypothetical questions are all thought-provoking, and here's my answer: the elementary/middle school I went to had uniforms. Solid-color polo shirt and khaki or navy slacks. That might be a little too extreme, but maybe saying "solid color clothing only" would work. It'd at least shut the NRA drones up about making a kid with guns on his shirt change, and it'd shut the Thought Police up about kids being allowed to roll into school with guns on their shirt. Both sides sound more ridiculous by the day.
