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Starry Messenger

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6. Next it will be back to the laundries.

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 11:42 PM

Aug 2012

Schools there are teaching that men rode dinosaurs, and girls have to make haste into exile lest they contaminate with their sin.

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School Forces Pregnancy Tests on Girls, Kicks out Students Who Refuse or are Pregnant [View all] proud2BlibKansan Aug 2012 OP

On what planet is that even slightly legal? Gah. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2012 #1

It did say Lousiana. I've come to accept that these states are planets unto themselves. n/t vaberella Aug 2012 #31

Criminee! Le Taz Hot Aug 2012 #2

Last time this happened was half a century ago. Time wasted. Fricking time warp. freshwest Aug 2012 #3

BTW, same ones that do this whine about someone touching their junk at the airport. Get real! freshwest Aug 2012 #4

I'm not fond at all of the TSA fondling. blackspade Aug 2012 #18

WTF? Ahhh, CHARTER schools! Leave your civil liberties at the door, kiddies! nt MADem Aug 2012 #5

Next it will be back to the laundries. Starry Messenger Aug 2012 #6

That certainly defeats the purpose of education. Welfare line here we come. jwirr Aug 2012 #7

Except that Clinton eliminated that escape route. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #20

They did this in the 80's where I went to school. Kalidurga Aug 2012 #8

The state is at fault too for even allowing this. LiberalFighter Aug 2012 #9

Bobby Jindal's state... AsahinaKimi Aug 2012 #16

Wtf is a public charter school TrogL Aug 2012 #10

It's a school funded with tax dollars proud2BlibKansan Aug 2012 #17

First of all isn't this somehow illegal! Second of all are we slipping into some sort of Handmaid's Justice wanted Aug 2012 #11

I was thinking the same thing. This is the stuff that rebellions are made of. Zalatix Aug 2012 #15

No we're not slipping at all, Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #21

I'll give you that one. Justice wanted Aug 2012 #32

Next year - menstrual huts! bluedigger Aug 2012 #12

In a world where the OP is not from The Onion every absurdity has to be labeled. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #22

O.o?! sakabatou Aug 2012 #13

At what point do citizens get pissed off and physically close down schools like this? Zalatix Aug 2012 #14

The citizens of the these shit-holes like this stuff. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #23

Must've gotten pregnant by themselves. Mister Ed Aug 2012 #19

Institutional misogeny. Only in WTF-istan - n/t coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #24

Let me guess--they would also be kicked out for using contraception or having an abortion. tanyev Aug 2012 #25

Why isn't the ACLU on this? 99Forever Aug 2012 #26

from the OP: barbtries Aug 2012 #33

Good. 99Forever Aug 2012 #35

The first I heard of this was yesterday in an ACLU release, but please, continue kneejerking. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2012 #34

Looks like an easy Title IX case. Robb Aug 2012 #27

Oh wonderful get the red out Aug 2012 #28

What about the fathers? Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #29

The war on women is also the war on teenage girls gollygee Aug 2012 #30