Posted on 11/12/2013 11:12:02 PM PST by grundle
Edited on 11/13/2013 1:34:56 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A controversy over kids wearing T-shirts to celebrate their friend who died from leukemia has sparked anger and soul-searching in Battle Creek, Michigan. On Saturday, sixth-grader Caitlyn Jackson passed away after a three-year battle with the disease. More than a dozen classmates showed up at Lakeville Middle School on Monday wearing orange and blue t-shirts bearing Caitlyn's name, many of which had been decorated by the kids themselves over the weekend. Blue was the 12-year-old's favorite color, and orange is the color designated to promote leukemia awareness. Upon arrival, the students were informed that they would need to either turn the shirts inside out, cover the girl's name with duct tape, or change tops
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Always remember...anyone cutting school funding that does not cut administrators and executives...supports morons who run the schools. And you get this idiot nonsense
You would improve education by taking 50% of all school administrators, executives, “dollar a year men/women”, and executing them on the spot
The school in which I teach has a similar rule, because the students will wear these shirts regarding murdered gang bangers. A one size fits all policy is adhered to because they would get Royal Mayo, our local “neighborhood advocate”, to file a law suit against the school. Regardless of how stupid he would look doing this, our school would back down because it’s expensive. I’m not saying the policy here is correct, I’m just pointing out the strange rationale.
After decades of turning out unthinking, uneducated and ill-educated children, those unthinking, uneducated and ill-educated children grow up to be unthinking, uneducated and ill-educated school administrators.
“Why do we have public schools?”
Originally it was to teach children how to read the Bible! How times have changed!
One word answer.......UNIFORMS.
And, of course, the skool administrators would have to watch the students removing their shirts to ensure compliance.
“Some parents demanded the resignations of those administrators who had called for the T-shirt ban. That night, after speaking with Caitlyn’s family, the school reversed their decision and said that the students could wear the shirts the next day.”...
Apply enough “heat” and the powers to be will back down, they don’t want to loose their cushy jobs.
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