Student arrested for wearing NRA shirt

[Deltaboy1984]

School districts often over play their hand under back up the Teacher. IMO the kid should have been sent back to class and the Teacher called in and given a cliff notes overview of the Bill of Rights.

 

[Cee Zee]

Should any shirt "disrupt" another? No, but in a high school environment they absolutely can. I don't support what the school did but I do see their point and wonder how many here would be so outraged if the same incident happened to a kid with a shirt promoting an anti-gun or anti-christian message.

Way to assign thinking to someone who doesn't express anything remotely connected to your view! Wow it's easy to win arguments when you make up stuff that the other guy thinks. Do you have ESP or do you just guess at these things?

That shirt was not "anti" anything. Big difference BTW. Do you not understand that slamming the views of someone else is nothing like expressing your own views in a manner that isn't designed to offend anyone? Wait. I guess you answered that already with your post.

The shirt said, "Protect Your Right". Wow that's just like saying "Christianity Stinks". Can kids wear anti-Christian message shirts at schools? Have you been paying attention? I wouldn't be surprised to see teachers giving out shirts like that. A college professor recently had students write the name Jesus on a piece of paper then put that paper in the floor and stomp on it. Those students are the future teachers of America. That professor is a product of our education system. Do you understand the bias built into our system against guns and against Christianity? The examples we have here are pretty clear. That doesn't mean I would have some student arrested for wearing a shirt that respectfully promoted their views. "Protect Your Right To Not Believe" would be the equivalent here. Would I want someone arrested for wearing that shirt? Only in your dreams. But thinking gets assigned to others by certain groups in this country all the time. Let's put it this way. This country was founded by Christians and to a lesser extent Diests. Yet we haven't demanded that people accept our views. Christians don't believe in coercing people to accept their views. They believe in convincing people to join them. They don't have people arrested because they don't share their views. Christians created a country that tolerates opposing views. No one gets arrested for not believing. The gun grabbers just expressed a lot less tolerance by having this kid arrested.

 

[X-JaVeN-X]

He wasn't arrested for the shirt. He was asked to remove the shirt because it was causing a disruption at school. He was arrested for disoderly conduct when he refused to comply with school rules and caused an even larger disruption. The kid and his dad should both be in jail. We don't need folks like this representing us.

Nothing new here, students have never been allowed to bring anything to school that caused a disruption. The definition of what disrupts has changed with the times. 40 years ago kids were routinely sent home when boys had hair too long and girls with skirts too short. If they had done what this kid did they would have been arrrested too. The things that caused a class disruption in 1970 and 2013 are far different. The long hair and short skirts wouldn't raise an eyebrow today. Shirts with unpopular messages will. I would have been sent home for that T-shirt in 1970 too. Not because of the message, but because T-shirts were only allowed in gym class. We were expected to dress better in regular classes.

Like it or not an NRA shirt is going to cause problems just as much as a GAY PRIDE shirt or a PETA shirt. None are allowed, and with good reason. It has nothing to do with gun rights or 1st amendment rights. We all have 1st amendment rights, but that does not give us the right to force others to hear our message. He can excercise his 1st amendment rights away from school. Doing it at school is interfering with the right to an education of every other kid.

Schools have often left dress codes vague and used the "class disruption" clause in there and trusted kids and parents to use some common sense. Stunts like this are why many schools are requiring uniforms. If parents cannot use common sense, then even the right to choose your own clothes are taken away.

This is exactly where this is going. If he is allowed to wear the NRA shirt, you set a precident. The next kid who wants to show up in his GAY PRIDE or PETA shirt has to be allowed to wear it too. Then how many will be arrested/ hospitalized after the brawl in the cafeteria. They will all be wearing khaki's and polo's in the school colors next year. No options, no NRA shirt, no camo, no jeans. Just what a committee picks out for you to wear.

wow...ummm...no...just...no....

Just because people rolled over in the 70s doesn't make it right....that still applies today. Maybe if there were less rolling over in the 70s we wouldn't be in the mess we are today...This country needs to grow a spine again and start fighting for what they believe and not just accepting what they are told to believe. The mentality from the post above is the most dangerous attitude you can have imo.

 

[silicosys4]

We all have 1st amendment rights, but that does not give us the right to force others to hear our message. He can exercise his 1st amendment rights away from school. Doing it at school is interfering with the right to an education of every other kid.

Please point out which amendment specifically grants the "right to an education". You won't, because there is none. There is, however, a very clearly worded first and second amendment. Your fabricated "right" does not trump real and actual rights.

 

[Cee Zee]

Just because people rolled over in the 70s doesn't make it right

Actually they didn't roll over in the 70's. That battle was fought and won by the students. If you don't believe me I'll show you a photo of how much hair I had in those days. I was threatened with expulsion many times because of it but that never happened. Girls were wearing shorts, pants, etc. when we left school. Nothing but dresses were allowed when we first got there.

 

[Bhi curamach]

Yeah, Ireland wanting freedom from British rule and forming an army exactly as the states in north America did is shameful. Now PIRA, the provos,or provisional IRA would be a better example. After the republic won its freedom some split to form the group most associate with so called Irish terrorist. How dare they go agaisnt the crown. Your freedom is not good for the UK at this time, kindly toe the party line.
IRA shirts the same as NRA shirts? Insulting.