Fresno, Calif. - A California school district sued by a former sixth-grade student who was asked to remove an anti-abortion T-shirt has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle the suit.
Attorneys for Tiffany Amador said Friday that officials at Merced's McSwain Union Elementary School called the T-shirt disruptive when she wore it in April 2008.
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The school is going to make a rule now, that graphic T shirts are not allowed in school. I just think about what 50 grand could have bought for the students who actually go to school to learn something instead if giving it to this silly child who wanted to spread her parents brain washing message. The school district seems like chicken shits here.
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Religious right propaganda narrows the minds of youngsters into a having tunnel vision along the straight pathway to redundancy. Give me the road less travelled and let me explore it at will. I wouldn't be surprised if the $50 k hasn't been spent on giveaway bibles to convert the masses ! That school board is an arrested developement at best. Cowering under pressure and cooperating in a payout settlement is akin to an A+ in BULLSHIT !!! -Kiki :/
Yep, and you know they'll be the first one's to complain when they take a look at their anual budget and say they don't have enough for new computers.
that shirt IS disruptive and it is an attack on freedom of choice and the legal right to abortion....the school board should NOT have cowered and should have fought this....
Next year, that school will have no art or music program. Watch. But that's ok, little girl got the attention she was so desperately seeking.
hell, my daughter got stabbed in art class twice the same day by the same asswipe kid with an exacto knife. We didn't sue the school and should have! WHY didn't we? I don't know!! STUPID!!! The kid got arrested and is still a criminal. He stabbed her because she woulndt take his drugs or go out with him, so he stabbed her from behind 2x during the same class period. It was a terrible time in her life. There is a mental disorder called "Pickery" or something, ppl that have it will stab in crowds at random. She got stabbed in her buttocks. Horrible pain. He doesnt have that disease, he's just a criminal. & she ran into him at her good friends wedding 2 weeks ago. He's married to her friends sister, so she HAD to spill the beans about him. It did not come as a shock to her friend. He is still a really bad guy. But now her friend feels terrible. The gal thst amrried to him still doesnt know. Why give her anything else to think about but the gals sister is now worried about him stabbing her new baby neice. It could happen!! Hope not, but he's a bad guy.
rox
Rox he's a sociopath. He does not have Pica
he's a sadistic sociopath. They are amongst
us in life. The general population has every
one in four people pegged for SPD. -Kiki :/
I'm really fed up with the stupidity of people in this country.
Peg it will never cease human stupidity is
an abominable plague & when you add the
law into the mixture ... well John Bull said it
best " the law is an ass. " Must be Monday.
- Kiki :/
The people in this country are idiots and it's cases like this that make it worse - that and people suing (and winning) against fast food chains because they got fat. They got fat because they were lazy. Too lazy to cook, work out or get out of their car to eat. I don't give a rats ass about abortion...I don't really like kids or adults for that matter so who cares? This is a good argument for school uniforms - put's everyone on a level playing field at least where clothes and labels are involved.
I wonder how she and her parents would have responded if someone wore a pro-choice t-shirt to school and the school did nothing. Bet they would have had a hissy fit and sued over that as well.
Pathetic!
It may have been in poor taste to wear it to school, but it was wrong for the school to tell her she couldn't wear it. People get offended because they don't like dealing with the idea of what abortion is. It's easier to do if you don't have to recognize the reality of that act.
I also have to point out that school uniforms are looked to as the magic means of leveling the playing field. Get over that idea. I can tell you from first-hand experience, they don't. Where there is a will, there is a way.
The shirt is disruptive. The school should have fought it. Fucking parents should know better. There are some things that you just don't wear to school. Well, my son has a T-shirt that says, "I dress like this because my mom was too drunk to do laundry this week." I guess it's cool to wear to school now.
My sister had a shirt that said "I suffer from PMS-Putting up with Men's Shit." She wore it to school and nobody ever sent her home. She had to stop wearing it though because when she sat down her desk covered up the bottom part so it looked like she was wearing a shirt that said "I suffer from PMS." Oh well.
Alison lol at the sitting down part !!! Kiki ;-))
Tonya, how old is your son? Did he buy that shirt on his own?
LOL at Tonya's son's shirt.
The shirt is funny, but take it from the child of an alcoholic, that would have cut me to the quick if I would have seen that on someone :(
I know, I know, I'm a buzz kill...LOL
I used to have an 'ass' shirt, pictured a cartoon of a donkey in the various 'ass' references. I used to wear it in HS a lot, I called it the assy shirt. That was 93-94, and the dress code wasn't too bad. Now that I looked at my old HS website (in FL) they have changed the dress code and it's become very conservative. I say good for them. Kids are supposed to focus on studying when they are in school, not on who has the coolest fashions.
In my home country ALL schools have uniforms. From the poorest state funded to the richest. And ALL are required to meet the uniform requirements. Saves a ton of money in clothes and shoes. For everyday we wore loafers or maryjanes. The only ones allowed to wear some kind of heels are the senior girls, and only for special school ceremonies. For PE boys and girls are required simple canvas shoes. No fancy sneakers.
If a girl showed up with a hint of makeup, she had her face wiped right there by one of the teachers. If one showed up with the skirt hem above the knee, or the waist rolled to make it shorter, she was to unroll it or her hem was ripped down. Big jewelry was not allowed, in most schools boys are not allowed long hair. I had many friends who were sent home because of the long hair. No pity.
It didn't matter if your uniform was old and mended as long as it was clean and proper. Plain white socks or socks assigned by the school.
We had plenty of opportunities to show off our stuff outside of school in parties, or during school events.
I'm super old school when it comes to education. Looking back to those times I can see that peer pressure and bullying were kept to a minimal with the enforcement of school dress code and the use of uniforms. My school years in my hometown were very healthy and I almost never saw kids acting out of control.
I'm a huge fan of school uniforms. They are the great equalizer: Rich or poor, it's all the same. I wish my school had had them.
I am definitely for freedom of speech. Sure, this kid can wear that shirt. Meanwhile, I hope she's ready for other people to exercise *their* freedom of speech when they respond to it. Religious extremists never seem to think that others have a right to answer back to them. Wrong. It's not a one-way street.
lu
Lu, I remember we exercised our freedom of speech through our personal belongings. We were allowed to decorate our school supplies however we wanted. But you're right, it's a two way street. Back then we earned our right for freedom through our good grades and through good behavior and by being respectful. Freedom is not free, and kids don't learn to earn their freedom these days. Too much entitlement and not enough personal accountability.
Another thing that helps in my hometown, is that our kids have a static classroom. The teachers come and go, the kids stay put. Chances of skipping a class were slim, cause there was always someone watching us, and that also minimized bad behavior in school. Very few kids were seen wandering the halls, and that was only when a teacher was absent that day.
I dont see the problem. People wear liberal t-shirts as well. Just because you dont like this message its wrong? Not saying I agree with her message..just her right to wear it. Dont be a hyprocite.
Angie, I bought him the shirt when he was 12 or 13 but he would never wear it until just lately. He's 15 now. No, I'm not an alcoholic I just think that shirt is hilarious.
Angie, regarding how that would have hurt you had you seen it on another child:
THAT is why provocative shirts shouldn't be allowed in schools. What is appropriate or even funny to me isn't to somebody else and shouldn't be allowed in school. Including pro-life T-shirts.
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