Posted: 1/13/2005 6:22:42 PM EDT
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I'm not as torqued about the kid wearing her scarf as I am about all head-wear being banned (!) I don't have kids so maybe I'm just out of the loop on this one but I gotta ask....are kids (Or schools) THAT far out of control these days that they have to have blanket bans on hats?! WTF  Back in the dim, dark '70's kids wore all SORTS of crap to high-school and it was rightfully identified as BEING A KID.Jesus, I'm SURE any number here will say that things are different now and I guess they probably are but, what a FU'd situation. 
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My students wear religious jewelry, shirts, etc. all the time. Nobody has a problem with it. A neon-orange "I Love Jesus" t-shirt that shoots popcorn and beeps like a car alarm? Only then I'll be sending that kid down to the office to call home. I think a lot of people have the notion that public schools outlaw all religious items. From my experience, it's not true. Let your kids wear their Jesus shirts and cross-necklaces all you want--guess what? Kids already do. |
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Treadhead, as far as I am concerned, sending your child to a public school in this day and age is tantamont to sending them the liberal indocrination centers. They are useless. You can educate your own kids better, faster, and more efficiently in 6 years than what the schools can do in 12. Public schools are a waste of tax payer dollars. SGatr15 |
Because there's a HUGE difference in the students (discreetly) expressing their faith, and a school appearing to promote one and not others. Of course, what many teachers do is dance around the issue...they'll put lights and red/green paper up...stick a snowman here and there and refer to the 2-weeks off as "Winter Vacation." That's the world we live in. |
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So what? Wouldn't you be up in arms if the school had told a student that they weren't allowed to wear a Christian symbol? I bet you would. Yet - in my neck of the woods, the elementary school my wife teaches at is used on Sundays for church services. Let's face it. Some of you folks here are just getting bent because the word "muslim" appears in the text. |
I believe some of us are "bent" because Muslims appear to be getting preferential treatment over Christians at a time when a certain percentage of Muslims are trying to kill us. And the school's rules where no head coverings at all. An exception to the rule was made for the Muslim "religion" which I doubt no such exception would ever be made for any Christian symbol. Sgtar15 |
Yeah, but if they didn't allow it, the Muslims would start kidnapping people and chopping their heads off until they allowed it. |
So, I take it that you would be just as upset if a Jewish student had won the right to wear a yarmaluke - right? |
You're probably right sgt'. One of my jobs right now is in Mental-Health (I'm the medical manager for a community-based MR/DD program) and I just spent most of the day reviewing a behavior support plan for one of our consumers who attends a local High-School here (They call it "Mainstreaming") who's figured out that by shitting himself in class he gets the reinforcement of having his two female aids strip and clean him (Retarded or not, what 18 yr old WOULDN'T want a couple of girls to strip and wash his lower regions lol). Anyway, I was thinkin' all day about what THAT must be like for the non-handi-capped kids in his class  This kid is on a freakin pharmacy of meds and the smell in that classroom (When he triggers) must be one for the books "Ignore the horrible smell that just permeated our environment class. Julie, could you please read the second paragraph?" 
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a big +1 |
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