Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Blog #2
Watching the video, and reading the article about the two boys not being allowed to wear the shirts to school is ridiculous. In my high school we weren’t allowed to wear red, because that was a sign of you being a gang member. If even after the first warning you continued to wear red you had to go under detention. I think in both of these cases the school was wrong, although one of them was a little more over the top then the other. The kid wearing the shirt about Obama was nothing wrong but the school felt like that it wasn’t appropriate to school because there was a political election going on and the different viewpoints might create conflict between the students and if that was the reason that it’s still not right to ask someone not to wear it, but I can understand to a point. On the other hand, not letting someone go to school because they wore a shirt about Rednecks is over the top. There are a lot of jokes out there that people just need to take, and on the other hand letting people go to school with shirts that has pictures of violence on it doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I think the SRJC is pretty good about this stuff. I trust that we are all adults and can consciously decide what we are going to put on in the morning. If it’s something we want to make a statement with, so be it. That’s why I feel that the little boy had to right to wear the shirt because he was expressing his feelings, he was proud of his president.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I agree with your post. I think it's ridiculous too. If your proud about something then you should be able to show it. You made good points about how there are a lot of jokes out there and people need to just get over it. When they let kids wear violent shirts over harmless joke shirts or president shirts it makes the school look ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteZsofi,
ReplyDeleteGood point about people needing to be able to weather jokes. And, at SRJC, we have to be able to do this, because we're adults, and there's no restriction to freedom of speech, except if it interferes with people's educations, or places them in harm's way. But... in grade school, I dis agree with you. I think kids should be really really limited as to what they can wear (in school). School for young children is a sacred place, in the sense that they need to learn the rules of the road, as it were, in terms of how the political or any other kind of public discourse is concerned. Re: the high school kid, I don't know... high schoolers are still children, and they are definitely not comfortable with telling people (especially administrators) that they are embarrassed or hurt. I probably wouldn't have notived the redneck shirt, but, if somebody brought it to my attention, I would have probably asked the kid to remove it, and take whatever steps would have been necessary to see that through. Two issues on that. One is the shirt itself, and the other is the respect that the kid needed to show to the administrator. He didn't address either in an appropriate manner. Good post. Thanks.
Hey hun...I would have to agree with you on that one. I beleive people should have the right to express themselves unless there is a problem. I also beleive that these schools take it way to far...they are trying to set an example to these kids but yet they are contradidting what they are saying in the first place doesnt quite make sense to me...This is something that I have dealt with most of my life especially in the last 7 years it has been a challenge to not get judged. And yes defenitly people take things way to literal...to bad you can't wipe away ignorance....great response!
ReplyDelete