8TH GRADER ARRESTED, SUSPENDED FOR NRA Shirt

[Sharpster]

5 years ago when I was in school there was no tolerance for guns on shirts.

 

[Doctor_M]

He should have said it was a National Recovery Administration shirt... that was a New Deal Democrat thing... should be acceptable to lib teachers.

Good grief.

 

[Nanook]

I picked up a shirt for my kid at Camp Perry a while back that reads:

"I compete in an Olympic sport
but can't talk about it at school."

 

[ShallNotInfringe]

I picked up a shirt for my kid at Camp Perry a while back that reads:

"I compete in an Olympic sport
but can't talk about it at school."

+1. Great one!

*** It is impossible to legislate evil away. What's amazing is that liberals are willing to die trying.***

 

[Tacticalglobe]

And what are we going to do about this mess????
Where is it going to stop???

This is an outrage !!!!!

 

[MDFF2008]

We weren't allowed to have clothes with guns or knives or weapons in school.

I was hoping he just had an NRA shirt.

 

[Makarov Kid]

I'll take the challenge. I'm going to buy am NRA shirt and wear it in school as I am an 8th grader. Funny thing is my principal (I think he is a socialist!) got mad at me because I brought a box of tea to school. I still wonder how that was bad.

 

[5cary]

We weren't allowed to have clothes with guns or knives or weapons in school.

I was hoping he just had an NRA shirt.

Makes no difference to me. The rules are anti-1A AND 2A. So wearing a shirt depicting a colonial soldier holding a musket with the word "freedom" would be "against the rules"? (my son has a shirt like that from Williamsburg). I'm calling BS.

I understand why rules are in place, but simpleton rules in a PUBLIC school that directly contravene the constitution are unacceptable. I don't care how long it's been like that, or how wide spread - both of which are further indications of how far we've fallen. I am particularly concerned where the purpose of the rule is directly political and one sided in nature.

We are in a sad state (and State) right now.

 

[28Shooter]

Teacher+Principal+School System = Lawsuit, and if justice prevails, Large Settlement...and my wife is a public school teacher who finds this story outrageous!

 

[rbird7282]

I'll bet that fu*king teacher wouldn't object to him wearing a Che Guevara shirt.

EXACTLY.

 

[rbird7282]

I'll take the challenge. I'm going to buy am NRA shirt and wear it in school as I am an 8th grader. Funny thing is my principal (I think he is a socialist!) got mad at me because I brought a box of tea to school. I still wonder how that was bad.

A box of tea? Was it evil black assault tea?

 

[Streetgang]

5 years ago when I was in school there was no tolerance for guns on shirts.

35 years ago when I was in school, we had rifles on our rifle racks at school.....
My how our country has changed.

 

[MDFF2008]

If your going to wear an NRA shirt I suggest reading your schools dress code policy.

Its unlikely they could get you if it just says NRA because content based infringement is almost always destroyed by courts. You would have them the second they allowed any politically non profit shirt in the door.

However a court may uphold a rule against guns on clothes in schools.

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[pigfrmr]

figures......I have recently been looking at property in WVA

 

[A1Uni]

Those charges likely stemmed from the kid asserting his right to free speech.

The court will likely not uphold the BS charges placed, no doubt, to draw attention away from the school's misconduct.

If he got loud and disturbed the indoctrination - sorry- educational process, because his rights were being infringed then he committed no crime, just as every citizen has the right to resist an unlawful arrest, you can resist infringements of your Constitutional rights, as much as the current crop of politicians might like o persuade you otherwise.

 

[smokey]

methinks this had something to do with it...

It was the image of a gun printed on Jared's t-shirt that sparked a dispute between a Logan Middle School teacher and Jared, that ended with Jared suspended, arrested and facing two charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, on his otherwise spotless record

A couple of posts ago, it showed him organizing a protest at school and being a little overzealous when called in the office. He wasn't suspended for wearing the shirt, he was suspended for his reaction to being given a dumb order from a teacher. The teacher is an asshat for telling him to turn his shirt inside out, the student deserved his punishment for organizing the protest...I still support the student in manning up and taking his licks for the cause. I am fairly sure I would've done something similar as a student. Hell, as a teacher I was written up and investigated for suggesting I have the "legal ability to carry a gun concealed in order to defend my students against a violent threat" two years ago on a staff survey about what would make us feel more prepared in the event of a violent threat. I didn't back down from my viewpoint, but clarified carefully that I will not break current law...I am only advocating for a change of the current law. It took a while and a lot of hard work and dialogue to get back on the principal's good side after that.

Just for this, I'll be sure to wear my blue MSI polo to school again on monday and have my msf sticker facing the carpool loop. I'll put it in this thread too...the world of education could use bright, constitutionally-minded people. If you're retired, link up with your local school system and be a substitute every once in a while. If you're young and thinking of a career...be a teacher. You'll have summers off to work in your local gun-store for a discount...*ahem*...most every major holiday off, snow days, and you'll be fed in meetings multiple times through the year. Your students will bring you presents for the holidays and many businesses, cell providers, and apartment complexes will give you teacher discounts. You'll have a pay scale based on years in the system with theoretically guaranteed raises(unless a democrat is governor...bring back Bob), can elect to get paid during the summer(you actually get more money in these paychecks because they only take out healthcare and union dues for 20 paychecks), and you'll get 10 sick days + 2 personal days every year to use. It will be more stress than you will have anticipated going in to the profession, with many days testing your resolve to keep going, but it is one of the more fulfilling professions you can be in. It will also be much more work and many more all-nighters than you will have thought, but it will be worth it when you see your impact on the kids that you grow to care about.

Someone's got to spend 7 hours a day for 180 days with the next generation that will run things....it may as well be our people and not their people.

 

[2ndCharter]

35 years ago when I was in school, we had rifles on our rifle racks at school.....
My how our country has changed.

X2

And nobody got shot, had their weapons stolen or went into hysterics over seeing them there. We also didn't have or need police officers in the schools either.

 

[THier]

Thinking back to when I was in High school,, (1983) I was threatened if I wore my Blower Drive Service to school again I would be suspended. It was a picture of a super charger, with the caption, "injection is nice, but I'd rather be blown" they said it was "inappropriate"

 

[Maestro Pistolero]

I wonder if a T-shirt with a Bible verse on it would be able to be banned? I see no difference between a shirt with subject matter having to do with one civil rights over another. Imagine getting arrested for a Bible verse on your shirt. Talk about turning the first amendment on its head.

 

[smokey]