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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]xmas74
(29,671 posts)25 years or so ago we had a long list of t shirts we couldn't wear.
No concert shirts
No Guns and Roses shirts
No Spuds MacKenzie
No tobacco
No alcohol
No shirts that pertained or alluded to nudity or sexual acts
No obscene language
No shirts showing or advertising any kind of weaponry-this included hunting shirts
Military shirts were fine, as long as they were plain and showed no pictures. (Example: many of us had "ARMY" shirts. They were an olive color and had the simple Army block lettering in white. Anything other than that usually started arguments in my small town about which branch was the best and who was enlisting in which branch someday.)
Schools have always banned items of clothing for what are sometimes reasons unknown. People seemed to have forgotten how common that was just a few years ago. Schools ban at their discretion, sometimes for obvious reasons, sometimes over old incidents, sometimes over anecdotal accounts. Don't like it-fight it at a school board meeting or find another school.
(For the record-the reasoning in my school as to why weapons of any sort couldn't appear on a shirt was because it would disrupt a class. All it took was for one boy to make a comment and then they were all making comments.These are boys between the ages of 10-14. You can guess what kind of comments were made. I was in seventh grade when the ban over the hunting shirts went into effect due to disturbing comments made by a few of the boys.)