School airbrushes girl’s ‘feminist’ T-shirt in class photo

[Liberal_in_LA]

front row left of center, girl in black - next to girl in red



An Ohio eighth grader wanted to make a statement in her class photo and wore a T-shirt with the word “feminist” emblazoned across the front on picture day.

Sophie Thomas told TODAY.com that she wanted to help her peers understand the true meaning of the word.

“People around here misconstrue the word,” she said. “Like, ‘Oh, you’re a feminist so you hate men.’ I just want to spread equality, and a lot of people here don’t agree with me.”

But Thomas’ plan failed. When the class photo was issued, she noticed that her T-shirt was airbrushed and the powerful message was missing.

What followed was a situation of he said, she said.

Administrators at Clermont Northeastern Middle School in Batavia, Ohio, claim they contacted Sophie and her mother, Christine Thomas, about the T-shirt and the family gave the school approval to airbrush the image.

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“They didn’t contact us before,” Christine told TODAY.com. “It’s upsetting. It’s been an interesting week.”

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/04/20/school-airbrushing-girls-feminist-t-shirt-in-class-photo/

[Nye Bevan]

1. Well, to be fair to the school,

expressing the view that women should have equal rights to men is pretty controversial stuff.

[Warpy]

2. And it's not like the other kids had t shirts with slogans on them.

... oh wait...

[Nevernose]

3. The school tried to suspend my daughter for a "Well Behaved Women" t-shirt.

They told me that her shirt, which had a montage of pictures -- Elizabeth Blackwell, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, etc. -- and the caption "Well-behaved Women Rarely Make History" was a violation of dress code and that I would have to come pick her up and that if she wore it again she would be suspended. I'd personally purchased it for her at some sort of political function -- I think the Nevada State Party convention -- and remember the lady at the booth joking "We don't sell a lot of these to men, at least not in size extra small."

I said, "Of course I'll come pick her up. You know I'm going to sue the shit out of y'all, right?"

And lo and behold, after they'd contacted the legal department the next day, she wasn't suspended -- and then wore the short every single Monday for the rest of middle school.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. good for you. standing your ground

[blue neen]

5. That stinks.

There is nothing wrong with Ms. Thomas' shirt. She's trying to educated her peers.

[LostOne4Ever]

7. That is not right

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]The unedited version should be posted on the wall and the school should apologize to the family.[/font]