Junior high teacher tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get suspended (has guns on it)
The latest bit of anti-gun hysteria erupted in a school setting on Monday when an eighth-grade teacher threatened a 14-year-old boy with suspension if he did not remove his t-shirt supporting the United States Marines.
The incident occurred in a reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School in a small town in northeast Illinois. The teacher, Karen Deverell, believed the interlocking rifles emblazoned across Michael McIntyre’s shirt violated the school’s dress code, reports Fox News.
McIntyre’s father, Daniel McIntyre, said Deverell made him turn the shirt inside out for the rest of the day. He also noted that the boy had worn the shirt to school on many previous occasions without threats of suspension.
“My son is very proud of the Marines, and, in fact, of all the services,” the elder McIntyre told Fox News. “So he wears it with pride. There are two rifles crossed underneath the word ‘Marines’ on the shirt, but to me that should be overlooked. It’s more about the Marines instead of the rifles.”
http://news.yahoo.com/junior-high-teacher-tells-kid-remove-marines-t-123355966.html
Yes folks, even pictures of guns scare some people....solution? Wear your own shirt with a gun.
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Your choice of source just amplifies things. Click on your link and you get this:
...So I don't know why you're denying where it's coming from.
Thank you in advance. 
What nonsense. A personal attack from me is unmistakable. I would call the OP a clown, or a buffoon, or perhaps an unthinking NRA shill.
But in this case, SS just looks stupid for linking to Tucker Carlson's rag, at least to everyone but the gun-cuddling set, who will go anywhere and post anything in their last-gasp attempts to remain relevant.
If noting that gets a post hidden, then so be it. I have nothing more to add to this nonsense, so being shut out from posting in this thread is of no consequence. 
Your points on where the Yahoo link go are probably valid, but there is no reason to call someone stupid (and bragging about your skill in being *really* insulting -- eep).
Look, all I am asking is find a better way to make your point, please? You are an excellent writer, and I *know* you can do it.
Please? 
Joe Burgess is the Dekalb County Supertintendent of Schools.
“Very simply, it’s not a violation,” Burgess told the Daily Chronicle. “It’s a very common symbol for the U.S. Marines. Had we had an opportunity to discuss it, we could have straightened out the situation.”
On a somewhat related note, when my son was in 7th Grade, he used this picture as a humorous illustration in a PowerPoint presentation he was doing for his class.
He had to go talk to the school guidance counselor.
That may be "humorous" to you and you and your son, but I have a large oak tree in my yard. I sure as shit don't want armed squirrels taking over my property. 
the top 5 or so results do not have guns however i found one with a skull and two crossed guns. interestingly the yahoo/daily caller story doesn't have photo of the shirt but a local news source does:
It's of her favorite band My Chemical Romance.
I didn't even notice that it had guns on it. (All I saw was an intricate design. Silly me.) But sure enough, a teacher finally noticed it after about a month of my daughter wearing it everyday. She was told to remove it and never wear it at school again.
We knew the rules and didn't have a problem with them. It just sucks because that hoodie wasn't cheap.
It's being posted on mostly rightwing sites (at least that's what I found doing a quick Google search).
I was an Infantryman in the Army for 5.5 years. War sucks and I don't support or believe in violence, but I sport my Infantry cross rifles on my lab coat at work. My military service and the war is a huge part of my identity that I can't and never will move beyond. I wear and display some of those symbols more out of a desire to connect with others who have experienced what I have than anything else. I don't know if that makes any sense...
So what does my post have to do with anything that you wrote or the OP? I don't know. I'm just kind off in a ranty sort of mood right now. I personally wouldn't wear that shirt, but if it had a picture of a Combat Infantryman's Badge (pictured below) on it, I'd be all over it.
had guns on it were not allowed, why should this one be? Simply because it had the word "marine" on it? Double standard much?
the word "marine" on it, would it be allowed?
Errrrr merrr Gerrrrrd! 
Ours is pretty general but a shirt with an image of a gun would most likely be considered disruptive and that would violate our dress code for employees.
An adult who is not an employee could wear whatever they wanted. But I'm reminded of a family I encountered at our district office back at the beginning of the year. A man, a woman and two small children. They were asking about kindergarten enrollment. The man was wearing a shirt that said 'WHAT THE FUCK R U LOOKING AT?'. While that was certainly legal, it didn't prevent me from wondering just how stupid you have to be to wear that shirt when you go to enroll a kid in kindergarten.
Hate to say this, but some teachers don't use their heads OR their discretion.
... explicit pictures of people having sex aren't going to get anyone pregnant or spread STDs either. So, by your reasoning sexually pornographic depictions on clothes being worn at public schools should be just fine.
Most people (I think) would agree that there are some huge differences between pictures of guns on a t-shirt vs. graphic sexual images. I would expect fewer knee-jerk reactions (in most cases) to a t-shirt with pictures of guns than I would to a shirt with graphic images. I would imagine that most school dress codes would probably not allow students to wear either types of shirts but what are we really talking about here? I think that perhaps we are talking past each other. My overall point was teachers and school staff overreacting to tragedies at Columbine, Newtown, etc. and taking it out on students whom aren't doing anything other than expressing themselves through their clothes.
speech. You may not agree, but at this moment in time, you don't have the law on your side.
There undoubtedly are shirts that depict firearms (even if they refer to the military) in ways that are sufficiently violent or aggressive as to justifiy a school telling a student to change clothes. But a ban on any shirt depicting a firearm regardless of context? Such a ban would almost certainly fail if it gets to the SCOTUS.
Here are three shirts. A school could probably say no to the first. It almost certainly could not say no to the second. And the third? Probably can't ban that one. That one, by the way, is the shirt in question in the instance described in the OP.
