Students Banned From Wearing Pink Clothes - Officials 'Cracking Down'

[matcom]

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MERRILLVILLE -- Letters were sent home with more than 4,000 students from three schools Wednesday as officials attempted to further explain what they describe as a recommendation that students not wear pink clothes.

While much of the letter refutes newspaper and television reports that have labeled the action as a ban, administrators have admitted furnishing alternative clothes to some students who showed up for class wearing pink.

In Wednesday's letter, Superintendent Tony Lux said officials chose to address the issue proactively because they do not want groups of students trying to distinguish themselves from others with one of the year's hottest fashion colors. Individual students are not prohibited from wearing pink, he said.

An announcement aimed at discouraging students from wearing pink was made Friday via an intercom at Merrillville High School. No formal announcements were made at Pierce Middle School or Merrillville Intermediate School, but officials there also are cracking down on pink clothing.

The issue surfaced, Lux wrote in the letter to parents, when a few students, mostly boys, began to wear pink clothing around some of the schools.

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2004/04/01/news/lake_county/92da17158931882186256e69000eec99.txt

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Is he a nutcase?

It's hard to tell:

He said individual students are not banned from wearing pink.

"However, the wearing of any color when worn by groups of students to set themselves apart as an exclusive group identified by everyone wearing the same color or article of clothing will be investigated as possibly violating the student handbook regarding the wearing of gang colors," he said in the letter.

This is the republican wet dream. What's next, needing opetitions to hold protests and free speech zones?

Oops! Already have that!

[Hav]

2. .

"because they do not want groups of students trying to distinguish themselves from others with one of the year's hottest fashion colors"

But people are making fun of the conformity in those countries marked by communism.

[NuttyFluffers]

3. that's the funniest gang color i've ever heard of.

:tinfoilhat: :silly:

can't wait until champagne, salmon, and avocado become "gang colors"

[khashka]

4. I just don't get this

How do you distinguish between individuals and groups? The only way I can figure is if one student wears pink one day it's individual but if two or more show up on the same day it's a group. So I guess you can be individual only if no one else is being individual on the same day.

WTF? So a pink shirt, pink sneakers, a pink ribbon holding your ponytail and a jacket with "Crips Rule" written across the back in pink are all identical? Yeah, right.

This is just weird...

Khash.

[mac56]

5. Did the Sharks or Jets from "West Side Story" wear pink?

If so -

"Boy, boy, crazy boy -
Wear pink, boy!
Don't be dim, son - wear pale crimson -
Don't be a dink, boy!
Go, man, go, but not avocado -
Think, boy!
Just keep it pink, boy!
Real pink...."