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In reply to the discussion: Junior high teacher tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get suspended (has guns on it) [View all]Nine
(1,741 posts)Who's going to pay for this counseling?
Look, schools have three choices when it comes to dress codes. 1. They can have no dress code, which means allowing gang symbols, hate speech and symbols, sexually explicit imagery, and anything else you can imagine. 2. They can hire a team of lawyers to come up with the most comprehensive dress code ever seen to cover every possibility you could ever think of. Or 3, they can make reasonable, minimal guidelines and hope that common sense and communication between teachers, students, and parents will make up the difference. Guns are weapons, and weapons are, by definition, violent. I don't think the teacher's judgement in this case was so far out of line. The school administration did not agree with the teacher, but that doesn't mean the teacher was "wrong" in the way you mean it. To me it's like a lower court ruling being overturned by a higher court. I think a teacher having an erroneous interpretation of a dress code is far less egregious than parents failing the basic step of going to the school administration with their concern. This did not have to be a big deal. The parents made it into one.