Students sent home again for wearing same-color T-shirts

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Good for them-dress codes are bullshit!
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Students sent home again for wearing same-color T-shirts


By Eric Eyre
Staff Writer

About 40 Capital High School students were sent home Monday after they wore light blue T-shirts to protest a warning not to wear similar colors at school.

Last Friday, more than a dozen students were dismissed early after they banded together and wore pink T-shirts to school.

“It’s silliness,” said Clinton Giles, principal at Capital. “As kids will be kids, they did this for a ‘we’ll show you’ kind of thing. They felt they needed to say something.”

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Students said they wore pink Friday for two reasons: It’s a popular color with rap musicians, and a store at Town Center mall had a five-for-$20 special on T-shirts last week.

School administrators and students dispelled rumors that the powder-blue and pink T-shirts were gang-related.

“A gang of pink guys? Oh, that really scares me,” said Lizz Spencer, a Capital student who wore a T-shirt with the school’s colors Monday.

“Baby blue. Uh-oh,” said Bryan Flowers, another Capital student. “Those people in the office, they must be part of a gang — they’re all wearing ties.”

more at:
http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2004042634

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. so basically

two kids wear the same color t-shirt and they are sent home

[saigon68]

17. THE MAROONS RUNNING THIS PLACE --FIRE THEM !!!!

What a waste of time over nothing.

Imagine what SALARIES these public PIGS are making---????

Dipping their Snouts DEEPLY in the PUBLIC TROUGH

[TeeYiYi]

2. Isn't that the truth . . .

re: “Those people in the office, they must be part of a gang — they’re all wearing ties.”


TYY

[displacedtexan]

3. No one will ever take that principal seriously now.

“The kids were dressed inappropriately for the school environment,” Giles said. “Kids are rebellious. It’s our job to guide them in the right direction.”

Giles said he likely won’t “waste another entire day” disciplining students who deliberately wear the same T-shirts.
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That means he knows he's lost... it was a stupid battle to begin with.
Giles will forever be the freak who made an ass out of himself over pink and baby blue T-shirs!

[soleft]

4. God forbid students be allowed to "say something"

:mad:

[markses]

5. Any solidarity not previously approved by the administration is

forbidden. Students should learn that they are toi be segmented and stratified according to orders not their own. Any self-caused formations will be crushed.

[theboss]

6. Capital has had trouble from the beginning

It's a consolidated school in Charleston and draws on a huge cross-section of the city. (Charleston being one of the few urban/diverse parts of WV).

I don't know if it's had any recent gang problems, but it wouldn't surprise me.

[AlphaQuack]

7. Is there a comparison to made here?

http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel200401080929.asp

From January of this year...

In the case of Newsom v. Albermarle County School Board the Fourth Circuit ruled 3-0 in favor of a public-school student`s First Amendment right to wear a shirt from an NRA shooting-sports camp.

[LeftCoast]

9. Welcome to DU, AlphaQuack!

:hi:

[bbernardini]

8. God forbid they should express themselves through words and actions...

..instead of their clothes.

I used to be a really anti-dress-code person until I started working in a school where they had one. The stigma of not having exactly the right kind of clothes is instantly removed, and students who might otherwise never talk to each other all learn to get along. The boundaries of rich/poor and cool/not cool go away, and the students learn to relate to each other based on who they really are, not what their clothes say they are.

I'm rather conservative in my dress, but radical in my ideas. I'd rather be judged by my deeds and actions.

[SoCalDem]

11. I am a "uniform" person, myself..

How hard is it to just adopt a uniform.. black/navy pants skirts..light blue, yellow or white polo style shirts.. leather SHOE style shoes (no $200 athletic shoes)..

Problems ..gone !

Rich and poor look alike now..

there is plenty of time for the kids to "express" themselves AFTER school and on weekends..

Parents who fight it, actually end up loving it.. There's never the "I don't have anything to wear" trauma, and studies have shown that the discipline problems are less where uniforms are the norm..

and here's the funny part.. The ritzy-chi-chi schools that most parents would kill to have their kids attend..have uniforms :)

[theboss]

12. Uniforms are a great idea

It erases class distinctions, it ends distractions, and it causes nonsense like this to stop.

My dad's a principal, and he has always said that his favorite day of the year is picture day, because people behave better when they are dressed well.

[Maeve]

19. Oh, THERE'S a thought!! Have a bunch show up in uniforms!!

Sure, Target and all the general stores carry the Catholic school wardrobe--can you imagine the fuss about kids being suspended for wearing THAT?!?!?

:D B-) :D

[Mountainman]

10. I thought the control freaks liked uniforms!

Didn't I hear that all students wearing the same uniform is good for the school, the parents and the kids?

I guess we are content to raise our little robots for a world where they are only the working poor or cannon fodder.

No round pegs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boat Guy]

16. Sure they do --

-- but only if THEY get to pick the style, pattern & colors!

[saigon68]

18. DON'T WORRY Mountainman those here, who want uniforms

Those here, who think UNIFORMS are good, will soon be wearing one or maybe their kids will be fitted out in OD soon. ---baggy assed olive drab cammies. Maybe they'll learn to field strip an M-16A4 also.

[Bandit]

13. Remember the days when the only color t-shirts came in was white?

If all students wore white t-shirts would that also be against the rules?

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. Every kid should just paint a different letter on their t-shirts

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.
.

So when a certain number of them stand together it spells out a message

like

THIS SCHOOL SUCKS

or something less offensive, but gives a "message"

IS THIS OK - SIR ?

You get the idea

at least the shirts will all be "different"? :shrug:

Don't give up kids!

speak out!

[damnraddem]

15. Hundreds of students should wear plain-white Ts.

If the school reacts, it will look even-more stupid. If it doesn't, the question should be 'why not?'

[saigon68]

20. This shirt against the law

If I were young I'd wear this.

None of the Motherfuckers running the country would dare to.
That's why they are draft-dodgers