Boy loses court battle over being barred from pizza party

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | April 12, 2002 | Howie Padilla

[gdani]

A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment rights of a New Prague Intermediate School fourth-grader were not violated when the boy, a Green Bay Packers fan, wasn't allowed to attend a school pizza party at the Minnesota Vikings' headquarters.

[gdani]

Vee have vays of making you conform.....

[FourtySeven]

Are you telling me an entire NFL team is afraid of one kid wearing a jersey of an opposing team?

Sounds like this kid was a "troublemaker" in class on a regular basis, and the teachers just looked for a way to screw with him.

I do think it was kinda trivial to take this matter to court though. Talk about a waste of taxpayer dollars.

[foreverfree]

Go Eagles!

foreverfree

[ChadsDad]

The kid and his dad (specially the dad) should be embarassed at their own stupidity. Way to go dad, show your son what's really worth fighting for. Geewhiz....

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

They would have had a better chance had they filed a class action suit on behalf of all Packers fans.

[gdani]

The kid and his dad (specially the dad) should be embarassed at their own stupidity. Way to go dad, show your son what's really worth fighting for

And how would you feel if Sarah Brady was coming to the school and some kid wanted to wear an NRA shirt and was denied? Or Planned Parenthood and a pro-life shirt, etc, etc

[savedbygrace]

Glad to see the New Prague school district is so concerned about their students' education. After all, everyone knows a child's education isn't complete without the color purple. As for green, the enviromentalist program will handle that.

[ChadsDad]

That aint football...

[ChadsDad]

...and you are making my point. (What is worth fighting for).

[AppyPappy]

It's a public school. Free speech rights went out the window with school prayer.

The kid was trying to be obnoxious and his castrada father is an idiot for suing.

[End Times Sentinel]

Personally, (being a native Philadelphian) if my son asked me to buy him a, say, Dallas Cowboys jersey, I’d tell him to get out of my house, move to Dallas, get a job and buy his own damn Cowboys jersey.

It speaks to the character (or lack thereof) of an individual to embrace your local team’s arch rival and try to flaunt that when the local team invites you to their facility. I wonder where he gets that kind of personality flaw… couldn’t have anything to do with his father who decided to try to make this some bastardization of a Constitutional Case, could it?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[biggerten]

Yes, ve do haf our vays.

Rant ON. If you don't me do anything I want, regardless of other people's feelings, and consequently I suffer from a negative self image, I'll sic the MCLU, ACLU, federal courts, liberal newspapers, NOW, PETA, ELF, ALF, NAMBLA, Planned Parenthood, Green Peace, NPR, Paul Wellstone and my Dad on you. Rant OFF.

Schools gotta have some way of maintaining a modicum of discipline. It hurts me to say it, but the school is on the side of the angels on this one. Imagine, for once the angels (and the referees) aren't on the side of the Packers, when's the last time that happened?

[chriservative]

What kind of world are we living in now that we have to be sensitive to the feelings of grotesquely overpaid athletes and owners of multi-million dollar corporations at the expense of a 9 year old little boy? This doesn't sit right with me. If we took a class field trip to the slaughter-house and I wore a PETA shirt (not that I ever would), would I not be allowed to go too, for fear I'd offend the guy who bashes the cow on the skull before decapitating it. I'm sure he'd go crying home to his wife after work and whine about how upset it made him. The court is absolutely wrong here. This IS free speech issue.

[Ole Okie]

They would have had a better chance had they filed a class action suit on behalf of all Packers fans.

Yeah, millions for defense lawyers, not one red cent for tribute class action plaintiffs.

[gdani]

That aint football...

The issue isn't football. It's what amounts to a government-mandated dress code.

Glad you're so comfortable with having the govt decide what is and isn't appropriate to wear.

[Cpu]

The Peepul's Republic of Minnesota strikes again.

A kid in a class that won a geography contest is denied his reward by a teacher (i.e. Wellstone voter) because he might offend big money football players. Actually, I think the players would have singled him out for some ribbing , just because he had the balls to do what he thought right.

cpu

[gdani]

Schools gotta have some way of maintaining a modicum of discipline...

You mean "conformity" not "discipline". Unless you consider what some 9-year-old wears to be "bad behavior"

[ChadsDad]

i dont need the govt to tell me what is totally inapropriate. I can figure that one out for myself. And this kid's dad shoulda been able to also!

[ChadsDad]

You can site all the contitutional issues you want to, I'm a Dad, this is a stupidity issue...

[borntodiefree]

"Students have a constitutionally protected right to their education," wrote U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery of Minneapolis

Uhhh....excuse me...