School Bans Pro-Life T-Shirt - Seventh Grader Sues

Parent Dish ^ | July 8, 2009 | amy hatch

[Hildy]

EXPENSIVE TO HAVE A COUPLE OF UNIFORMS? Have you been shopping for teens lately??? I disagree with you on everything you say. Freedom. How many “government” jobs require uniforms. There is no such thing as first amendment when it comes to uniforms. Ridiculous. Every place they’ve tried uniforms has helped so many things..violence, cliques, etc.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I agree with you. All or nothing...And when it comes to school clothing, it should be NOTHING...Every school should have uniforms, as far as I’m concerned.

Which do you prefer fascism or communism?

[haroldeveryman]

“Government schools were a socialist scheme from the beginning to turn the citizens into compliant citizens of the state.”
It was inevitable, whether or not there was a conscious plot.

[jws3sticks]

A missed opportunity:

She's trying the early M.J. look. What's next? The one glove?

[Tabi Katz]

So, if a kid can wear a pro-life tee shirt some other kid can wear a pro abortion tee-shirt. And if a kid can wear a tee shirt saying that OBama is not a natural born citizen some other kid can wear a tee-shirt saying something nasty about Sarah Palin.

Fair enough.

Now, would the schools be so quick to go after the students wearing the pro-abortion or anti-Palin shirts?

[Tabi Katz]

I’m with you. If you want to send your kid to a school that requires uniforms, go for it. But don’t restrict the free speech of everyone else’s kids while further burdening taxpayers with uniforms in EVERY school.

[trumandogz]

Put them all in uniforms.

Or let them wear what ever political statement they wish.

[wintertime]

How many “government” jobs require uniforms. There is no such thing as first amendment when it comes to uniforms. Ridiculous. Every place they’ve tried uniforms has helped so many things..violence, cliques
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Why use prison garb?

What is a government school?

Definition: Legalized concentration camp for children who have committed no crime.

[BenLurkin]

Something told me that the use of “graphic” was intentionally deceptive.

[luckystarmom]

That’s why it’s nice to have a clothes closet with free uniforms. No one ever had to pay for uniforms if they didn’t want to at any of the schools we went to.

I would say most people don’t already have their clothes for school.

Uniforms are really easy on parents too because kids just know what they are supposed to wear.

I also like strict dress codes. My daughters are going to a new private school this year, and they don’t have uniforms, just a very strict dress code. They can wear jeans or capris or dresses/skirts to just above the knee. For shirts, they have to wear plain or patterned (stripes, florals, polka dots, plaid) shirts. They can’t wear any shirts with graphics, no spaghetti straps.

Basically, my girls are going to be wearing jeans/capris and a polo shirt. I found a store with lots of different colored polo shirts for $7, and I bought a ton of them.

[luckystarmom]

I went to public school also. I grew up in Texas,and I think there are still plenty of decent public schools in Texas. I didn’t have uniforms growing up, but we all dressed fairly conservatively.

I now live in California, and the public schools have lots of problems. Some of the problems are self-inflicted, and some of them are not. The kids are constantly pushing the envelope out here, and the uniforms are an easy way to enforce dress code. The kids even push the envelope with that. They still try to sag the uniform pants, girls try to wear really short skirts, etc.