Posted on 11/05/2013 2:26:04 PM PST by darrellmaurina
The suspension of a Rolla High School student who wore a shirt that displayed biblical verses and words opposing homosexuality raised debate on social media websites over the weekend after a St. Louis television station reported on the incident Friday.
However, Rolla public schools’s superintendent has responded to the TV station’s report, clarifying that students are disciplined for wearing clothes that are disruptive, not because they have religious quotes written on them.
Dr. Aaron Zalis, superintendent of the Rolla Public Schools system, spoke with the Rolla Daily News by phone Monday morning about the school’s dress code policy and to clarify what he feels is misinformation.
“There’s always more than one side of an issue,” he said.
Zalis said he could not discuss details of the case, but it was reported that an RHS sophomore was suspended last week over a T-shirt that had text of Bible verses as well as the words, “Being gay ain’t right.”
The school district’s dress code policy states that a “student’s dress, personal appearance and grooming must not materially disrupt or detract from the educational process ....”
The code also states: “When faculty members or administrators feel that a student’s manner of dress serves as a potential disruptive influence to the school program or might be of embarrassment to individual students or teachers, they will hold a private conference with the student and counsel him/her privately regarding the inappropriateness of his/her attire.”
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In other words, it's no longer just nut case cities like San Francisco and big liberal cities like New York and Chicago.
If we don't fight back now, not only will we be forced to accept homosexuality, we are going to lose our right to protest against it.
This is a crystal clear, open-and-shut case of First Amendment violations. Even the ACLU is on the right side of this, and has repeatedly defended students rights to wear T-shirts expressing their political or religious views.
There is something very wrong when a fairly rural Missouri school district is taking a position to the left wing of the ACLU.
Goals of Communism:
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
And please re-ping to anyone you know interested in homosexual or Missouri issues. This needs to be fought and fought hard.
This is going on one county away from me. It is in the middle of a very conservative part of the state.
This is on our soil now — home turf of the Bible Belt — and is not just liberal nutcase stuff in the big liberal cities. If we can't win things like this in our own back yards as conservatives, we can't win anywhere.
If one of my kids is ever suspended for something like this, or some crazy pseudo-infraction of a “zero tolerance policy” I WILL whip the azz of the principal/superintendent responsible, regardless of the cost.
If more parents did just that, there would be a lot less of this kind of shiz in schools.
American men have become over-civilized wimps!
If being gay is so right and NRML, then him could some religious nut offend you?
How could you let some religious nut offend you....
Fixed
Rolla is also the town of the liberal Carnahans. Is it in the Ozarks? I don’t have a map handy, but I thought it is in southeast MO, not southwest.
I would be willing to bet that Gay Pride T Shirts are perfectly acceptable, but any shirt with a contrary message is deemed “ disruptive”.
I am offended and disrupted by messages that homosexuality is something to be proud of. But then the rule is that there are some people you can’t offend and others that you are encouraged to offend.
The rule against “disruptive” clothing is purposefully vague so that the sodomites can use it as a club to punish anyone who dares to point out their unnatural and unhealthy practices.
I would guarantee that pro-homosexuality t-shirts are allowed and even encouraged.
Because deep down, they know what they’re doing is wrong. If they really believed otherwise they wouldn’t care what anyone else thought.
I live in this area. It's definitely the Ozarks, though on the edge.
You're right about Rolla being the historic home of the Carnahans. However, they have mostly moved away and there are reasons for that. This part of Missouri was once traditionally conservative Southern Democrats, and as the Democratic Party has moved left, lots of voters have jumped ship and become Republicans.
What counts is that apart from Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla shares the Ozarkian culture of rural southwest Missouri. Even Missouri S&T (used to be known as the University of Missouri at Rolla, and before that the Missouri School of Mines) is an engineering school, not a liberal arts campus, and is pretty conservative by the standards of academia.
If we can't win the battle against far-left liberal agendas here, we can't win the battle anywhere.
I believe this battle is winnable, but it needs to be fought and fought hard — and Freepers are the sort of fighters who can quickly call in lots of help.
Don’t forget-
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
I wonder if Obamacare is part of God’s judgment upon our nation for supporting this? Although the homosexuality itself is part of His judgment.
And then... dive into the gloomy hell they’ve made for themselves?
This plot ends up in suicide.
Zactuhmundo..
Homosexuality is, in part, a judgment on a flaccid gospel.
A full strength, gutsy gospel WILL save, not MIGHT save, WILL save, from homosexuality... in fact not too long ago the Holy Spirit showed me how homosexuality represents a twisting of the very best virtues of the gospel. However, polite “churchy” gospels of today do not rise to attributing the power to God needed to untwist it.
There’s nothing to do but preach the gospel at full strength again.
I believe in a gutsy gospel now. It is a tangible grip of the Holy Spirit.
We're going to need help here in rural Missouri. We're not used to fighting this kind of nonsense. And I'm afraid that the liberals, despite being a minority around here, are much better organized.
There are Freepers with direct connections to people like Rush Limbaugh and his brother who still lives in Missouri, as well as many others outside my own “social conservative” network.
Can you three help by pinging, or privately contacting, people who can help fight those who want to push the homosexual agenda into rural Missouri?
*Rolla is also the town of the liberal Carnahans. Is it in the Ozarks? I don’t have a map handy, but I thought it is in southeast MO, not southwest.*
Hit’s smackdab in th’ middle of th’ state.
It’s at the top on the cusp of the Ozarks. The edge, the entrance or the exit from the Ozarks, if you will.
“Rolla is also the town of the liberal Carnahans. Is it in the Ozarks?”
Yes, it is most definitely in the Ozarks. However, it is a “college town” and a bedroom community to Fort Leonard Wood - with the Army becoming very PC. However, rural Missouri - and Rolla is rural - is a stronghold of conservative evangelicals and some devout Roman Catholics. This may draw fire from local churches....and it should.
What I don’t understand is why doesn’t the dress code just say no writing, quotations, or slogans on shirts are allowed. Why use the criteria of “disruptive?” I would consider an Obama “Hope and Change” shirt to be disruptive...does the school? They need a code that is fully objective and in no way subjective and open to interpretation or opinion. Then maybe this would be a non-issue.
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