Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue gets sixth-grader suspended

foxsports.com ^ | 02/25/04 | Associated Press

[Bonaparte]

But, but lewislynn says it's only a sports magazine that just "happens" to have "pictures of swimsuits" in it.

[LibertarianInExile]

"There are, unfortunately, many who condone and even applaud the "standards" of Bill Clinton and Larry Flynnt. It is because of them that grammar school kids are now giving eachother oral sex on school buses."

I doubt that. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't even get remotely excited about ANY lurid activities on a school bus if I were thinking of Larry Flynt or Bill Clinton.

[zook]

No court has ever or ever will hold Sports Illustrated to be pornographic. Your dictionary definition is meaningless in this instance. There are photographs in Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and numerous other magazines that someone will consider sexually arousing. There are stories and novels in every school library in this nation that some will consider to be sexually arousing. They cannot--or ought not--be banned simply because someone finds them arousing or offensive.

If the student is using the magazine to disrupt a class or forcing people to view it who do not wish to, then the school has a right to ask that student to stop. But, in my opinion, and I suspect in the opinion of most Americans, the student *does* have a right to possess a copy of Sports Illustrated that shows women in bathing suits.

[LibertarianInExile]

Um...er...I could give you any number of euphemisms for what he was harassing, but my favorite is "the one-eyed trouser snake."

[concordKIWI]

I hope that when he was caught with it he wasn't "turning Japanese"!

[Destro]

feminazis

[Destro]

hell, SI swimsuit shows more now than playboy did when i was 12.

You must be old then because I remember Playboy at 12. Your statement is wrong.

[LibertarianInExile]

Yeah, I posit that the definition ol' Boney's floated there hinges on who decides what constitutes evidence of a 'primary purpose to cause sexual arousal.'

Me, I would prefer to have Larry Flynt decide over Jerry Falwell. Luckily, the choice isn't so stark. I get to decide. Seems to me that's the best way to deal with the issue.

However, in school, the principal does the deciding, and he did so a-okay in my book. The kid didn't bring this book in to read the articles--he was showing it to his buddies and they were drooling, you betcha.

[cajun-jack]

I am 54...you are probably right...but the photography wasn't as good then as it is now...The swimsuit edition does come very close though doesn't it??

BTW..what the heck were you doing looking at playboy at age 12...weren't you afraid your mother was going to was your eyes out with soap?? lol

you probably wear glasses too don't you?? lol

[Destro]

Like dirt on white shoes somehow playboys end up in the hands of teen boys.

[shaggy eel]

...but the photography wasn't as good then as it is now

,,, too much reading improves your eyesight. Five knuckle shuffle BUMP.

[zook]

My 'plaint is with the suspension, not with the principal stopping the kid from showing it around. I'm just one of those guys who thinks suspension ought to be used only in real severe cases of "life or limb."

[LibertarianInExile]

I agree it wouldn't have been my decision--but I wouldn't have sent the kid to in-school either, were it my decision. I'd have given him the option to run it through a shredder or call his mom and tell her what he'd been doing in class with it. Either would have been sufficient punishment in my book.

Of course, the mom would probably have whined to the principal about being called at work or wherever, instead of noticing her kid was at fault for the whole thing. I can hear that conversation now.

"What, you're calling me about the swimsuit issue?"

"No, I'm calling you because your son couldn't keep it in his bookbag and refused to put it away after the teacher asked him nicely more than once."

"So you're calling me about the swimsuit issue? God, I have to go play soccer and vote for Hillary--I don't have time for this!"

[TankerKC]

"Last time I checked, we were in charge of running the schools," Swarr said.

"Public" schools?

[concordKIWI]

We have this copy in our waiting room. I wondered why I started to see a lot of male patients visiting the bathroom.

[shaggy eel]

,,, no need to follow them in there.

[concordKIWI]

I'm already in there!