Posted on 02/26/2013 8:53:24 AM PST by Sopater
Summer Schreiner of Cocoa, Florida attended the Silver Ring Thing Conference, a Christian event that promotes abstinence only. At the conference, she obtained a t-shirt that read:
“Don’t drink and park… accidents cause kids”Summer believed in what the shirt said and was proud to wear it to school the next day. Everything was going well for her at Clearlake Middle School until just after lunch. On her way back to class, the 8th grader was stopped by the vice principal who told her to go to the office and change her shirt because it was inappropriate. She was given a t-shirt that read:
“Tomorrow I will dress for success.”Summer tried to explain that the shirt is not offensive, but that it promotes abstinence, but her words fell on deaf ears. She felt angry and humiliated the rest of the day. When she got home she told her mom, Angela Hogan, who said her daughter had dressed for success. Angela contacted the school and asked them to change their decision or apologize for wrongfully humiliating her daughter.
“This is not a situation of whether or not the district agrees or disagrees with sexual abstinence among teenagers. It’s about the fact there is sexual innuendo on the shirt, and so we believe it violated our dress code policy.”A vast majority of public schools, including middle schools are involved with organizations like Planned Parenthood who promote sexual promiscuity. I don’t know if that is the case with Clearlake Middle School, but Summer did say:
“If they teach you about sex in the textbooks and stuff, and that’s in a textbook, why can’t I wear something that is related to it on a t-shirt?”
Had I been Summer, I would have told the vice principal that the shirt saying about dressing for success was offensive to me as it did not insinuate the same set of values for success that I believe in. That’s what I would have done, but then again, I was somewhat of a rebel in school if I didn’t agree with the philosophy or politics being taught.
What you have done? Would you have caved in or stood your ground for your faith?
New T-Shirt idea.
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“If they teach you about sex in the textbooks and stuff, and that’s in a textbook, why can’t I wear something that is related to it on a t-shirt?”
Because that would make too much sense, dear, and we can’t have that in our beloved public schools. In other words, you’re dealing with idiots.
She should have just turned it inside out.
> It will prove to be our undoing... mark my words.
It already has.
I have heard recently from two public high school students, one in NH and one in WA, that “health” classes are showing pornographic material as “sex education”.
One school has a wall with pictures of Rosa Parks, MLK, and 0bama with the following lines next to their names, respectively.
Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so 0bama could run.
0bama ran so our children could fly.
Yes, it’s dear leader worship a la Korea.
Get your kids OUT of the government school collectives ASAP!
> In other words, you’re dealing with idiots.
Oh, no, they are not idiots.
They are “change agents”.
See ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117545052/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979-310pgs-EDU-sml
I would be happy if they were just “teachers.”
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