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High school punishes kids for wearing Christmas sweaters (Bah! Humbug!)
guyism.com ^ | 12-20-2010 | Staff

Posted on 12/21/2010 7:32:20 AM PST by Red Badger

I think the ironic celebration of the holidays in the form of gaudy Christmas sweaters is kind of lame. But one Virginia high school’s punishment of a group that called themselves the “Christmas Sweater Club” just seems ridiculous, even by oversensitive public school standards.

Ten students at Battlefield High School in Manassas, Virginia faced detention and other punishment as a result of their involvement in the Christmas Sweater Club.

One of the students involved told WUSA that the school said they were “maliciously wounding other kids.”

The Club believes that the accusation stems from them throwing candy canes to other students at the halls.

Another club member told WUSA that an administrator told him that “the candy canes could be used as weapons by sucking on them and making them have sharp points.” The student said that no one had done that [ED. NOTE: Presumably because this isn't "OZ" and most high school aged kids tend not to need to shiv someone in the cafeteria].

When reached for comment, school principal Amy Etheridge-Conti said they did more than hand out candy and cheer, but she refused to comment specifically on the matter.

So in summary, no one involved seems to know what they did wrong. And it couldn’t be THAT serious, i.e. they didn’t viciously sodomize freshman boys in the locker room while wearing Christmas sweaters, since they only got detention and clean-up duty. Unless sodomizing freshman boys is so common at this high school that it’s now a slap on the wrist punishment. Hmm. What’s your deal, Battlefield High School?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antichristmas; battlefieldhigh; candycanes; christmassweaterclub; education; highschool; manassas; politicalcorrectness; princewilliamco; schools; teens; virgina
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To: Homer1

Doesn’t this school principal qualify for the “Village Idiot of the Year” award?


41 posted on 12/21/2010 8:12:37 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: 240B

The leftists need to be confronted with the fact that

they don’t oppose “religion”

they oppose Christianity.


42 posted on 12/21/2010 8:12:46 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Red Badger

It just goes from rediculous to degrading - but all of this crappola stands as a threat. Fight back; that is all one can do and must do. These ‘suberts’ cannot win.


43 posted on 12/21/2010 8:12:56 AM PST by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . .and Obama, not made in the USA either. . .)
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To: Red Badger
It just goes from rediculous to degrading - but all of this crappola stands as a threat. Fight back; that is all one can do and must do. These 'suberts' cannot win.

oops; typo alert. ..subverts works better/

44 posted on 12/21/2010 8:13:22 AM PST by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . .and Obama, not made in the USA either. . .)
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To: paulycy

That cat does not look like he is feeling the Christmas spirit! I think he’s plotting revenge on whoever forced him to wear the sweater :)


45 posted on 12/21/2010 8:13:44 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: oyez

Most of the real violence, especially gang related,
is done by minorities,

and punishment of that activity would be inherently racist and insensitive.


46 posted on 12/21/2010 8:13:59 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: ladyjane

I think April is actually the month with the highest rate of suicides.


47 posted on 12/21/2010 8:14:49 AM PST by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: ladyjane

administrator called her and explained that, “not everyone wants Christmas cheer. That suicide rates are up over Christmas, and that they should keep their cheer to themselves, perhaps.”

That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. To think these are the people in charge of teaching kids.


48 posted on 12/21/2010 8:15:08 AM PST by skyman
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To: Red Badger

List of Proper sweaters allowed according to principal Amy Etheridge-Conti:

1) Mao sweaters

2) A sweater depicting Christ in a jar of urine

3) Any Sweater celebrating the religion of peace

4) Che Sweaters

5) of course, an Obama sweater is always permitted.

6) Anti-war sweaters

7) Red Sweaters with a hammer and sickle—those are not weapons, by the way, but tools of the oppressed.

8) A sweater with a decapitated Sarah Palin

9) A sweater stating —spreading of wealth is good for society

10) Any pro-choice sweater

Since this is the DC area, Redskin sweaters are prohibited due to offending Native Americans.


49 posted on 12/21/2010 8:15:29 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: skyman

“Noel” means GOOD NEWS!

And what is that good news?

“unto you a Savior is born!”


50 posted on 12/21/2010 8:16:34 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Boogieman; MrB

"MI EYEZ SHOOTIN DETH RAYZ AT YUR CHRISTMAS CLOTHEZ."

51 posted on 12/21/2010 8:16:59 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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To: Red Badger

we need email and phone numbers.......


52 posted on 12/21/2010 8:17:02 AM PST by is_is (VP Dad of Sgt. G - My Hero - "Sleep Well America......Your Marines have your Back")
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To: Red Badger

Contact:

http://battlefieldhs.schools.pwcs.edu/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=80430&sessionid=2b75f3991f1f826231776f9c74bbda1a


53 posted on 12/21/2010 8:17:42 AM PST by maggief
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To: geezerwheezer

It take a village to raise an idiot.


54 posted on 12/21/2010 8:18:15 AM PST by danielmryan
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To: Le Chien Rouge

The candy canes contain a subversive subliminal message, and this principal was just fighting it.

Christmas Candy Cane Poem

Look at the Candy Cane
What do you see?
Stripes that are red
Like the blood shed for me
White is for my Savior
Who’s sinless and pure!
“J” is for Jesus My Lord, that’s for sure!
Turn it around
And a staff you will see
Jesus my shepherd
Was born for Me!


55 posted on 12/21/2010 8:19:07 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Vendome

Bull Run is more scenic. ;^)


56 posted on 12/21/2010 8:19:23 AM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: Vendome

SUE.
Not a fan of lawsuits but this absolute horse shit has got to be stopped.


57 posted on 12/21/2010 8:23:38 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA
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To: 240B
Make no mistake about it. PC crap is NOT anti religious, they are specifically anti White Christian and anti- semitic.

Exactly.
58 posted on 12/21/2010 8:25:58 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: VanDeKoik

For scenic I love Chickamauga


59 posted on 12/21/2010 8:25:58 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: John Semmens

You can hang it up now, John. The world is now officially un-satirizable.


60 posted on 12/21/2010 8:25:58 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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