Nom de plume: Rivrdog: Back to School:
Back to School ...back to the School Board, that is... The Gresham/Barlow School District, which sent a student home for wearing a t-shirt with the Battlefield Cross on it, is meeting tonight. Yours truly will put on a coat and tie, my Oregon Honorable Service Medal, and sortie out to remind said School Board what Citizenship means.The story is available on video here! *(Sorry, direct link not immediately available)
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An eighth-grader was sent home from school for wearing a t-shirt honoring fallen troops—because it had a gun on it.Good for him. I'm not sure I would have demonstrated such courage when I was his age.
The principal at Dexter McCarty Middle School in Gresham, Ore., gave Alan Holmes a choice: Remove the shirt, which bore the message "‘Standing for Those Who Stood for Us," or leave school.
His father came to pick him up.
"They won't let me wear a shirt that supports the people that keep us free, I'm not gonna support them," Alan said.
Alan's family stood by his decision and his father said he would have done the same thing.
2 comments:
The news report I read said the school has a zero policy on violence, guns and depictions of guns or violence. This is not usual for schools across the nation. Some schools will send you home for wearing a T-shirt with the American Flag on it. They say it is offensive to non-American students. Your high school tax $$ at work.
Just Call Me Anon
Wanna be a teecher huh, just submit to this lobotomy.
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