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Schools are banning best friends to protect students' feelings
Business Insider ^ | 9.19.17 | Chris Weller

Posted on 09/20/2017 7:38:40 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl

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To: easternsky

South of San Jose there is a city called Morgan Hill and there five years ago two boys on Cinco de Mayo went to school with American Flag t-shirts.

the principal sent them home from school because he said it created a hostile atmosphere.

there was a big uproar and the case went to the Supreme Court.

In the Court ruling 18 months ago the Court held for the school not the boys.


21 posted on 09/20/2017 9:45:07 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Thanks, yes I remember that, will tell the Grandsons they wore Trump shirts last year, but live in rural areas.


22 posted on 09/20/2017 10:01:37 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: arrogantsob
This is UK, unless the Clinton’s are the “Royal Family” of which it speaks.

My kids' elementary school here in Florida has this same policy: "There's a policy," she said, "that if your child is having a party — unless every child is invited — you don't give out the invites in class."

23 posted on 09/20/2017 10:08:57 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

poor kid the only ones that are offended is social climbing adults.....every kid needs a partner in crime to get into trouble with.


24 posted on 09/20/2017 11:33:24 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Schools ban the 1st Amendment. No freedom of speech. No freedom of assembly. No freedom from religious establishment. No freedom of association.

We used to teach civics and the 1st Amendment in school. It is no wonder they don’t teach it anymore. Kids would get a mixed message.


25 posted on 09/21/2017 3:09:28 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
assign him a single serving best friend each day so no feelers are hurt
26 posted on 09/21/2017 4:25:56 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: exDemMom

Rules made by people who do not have ability to form best friend relationships!


27 posted on 09/21/2017 4:28:06 AM PDT by Ambrosia
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Next they will be assigning best friends.

Then come the minders...then they will report on each other's parents.


28 posted on 09/21/2017 4:38:58 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

I’m not sure the headline matches the story here. The policy of having to invite everyone if you pass out invitations at school seems like a good one in the elementary schools.


29 posted on 09/21/2017 7:11:17 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Ambrosia

Nobody actually read the article, right?

I need to start doing that.


30 posted on 09/21/2017 7:12:29 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
Remember, communism is ALWAYS about the group...not the individual.

Leni

31 posted on 09/21/2017 7:42:37 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: WVMnteer

My point is ‘who decided that having best friends is wrong?’. I grew up in mountains, with only relatives to hand out with, cousins mostly. I had an imaginary friend, who later disappeared once I went to school. I have had two or three best friends in a lifetime, and it has enhanced my life immensely. Why? Because they were older and spiritually mature, which gave me a much closer walk with God!

One can have so many friends, that no one is special, nor gets a fair amount of our time to really get to know one another. This idea of no best friend to keep you from doing something really crazy SCREAMS ‘COLLECTIVISM’...WHAT OBAMA WANTED! People think in groups, agree on politics, and help decide what the Group is supposed to think, and how to act!

NO THANK YOU!
As I look at the DEMOCRATS...that type of thinking is how they respond....always on cell phone, flash crowds, and collective thinking.


32 posted on 09/21/2017 7:30:00 PM PDT by Ambrosia
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To: Ambrosia

Nobody said that. The article does not match the headline.


33 posted on 09/22/2017 7:58:55 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: WVMnteer

I meant no insult....just find some of newer things annoying, like this article. I agree, the Headline is odd.


34 posted on 09/22/2017 1:32:26 PM PDT by Ambrosia
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