are we blowing stuff out of proportion

[vampirekid.13]

someone i know just got sent home from school because his shirt "depicts inappropriate material"

he was wearing a t-shirt with the official FCUK logo, and a big FCUK on it.


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the question is this...are we becoming too sensible to where something that innocent can be portrayed as something so bad? it definately seems like common sense and understanding is lost in todays society and we just throw the banhammer too easily at someone IN REAL LIFE.

 

[Xyphon]

Schools will be schools.....

I got sent home once because I had a mohawk. They classified it as a gang thing. The fuck?

 

[mdk31]

Yeah, I think it's getting to the point where people are getting over-protective and overly sensitive. Grow a thicker skin, people. The real world isn't all cupcakes and daisies.

 

[Diablini]

Free speech my ass! I am tempted to go to school with a T-shirt like that.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

... that is a tad overzealous.

It's probably a one-off. Is this kind of thing a regular occurance, or just one stupid teacher? If not, then don't worry, the world is not going to banhammer hell in a handbasket.

PS: by the way, while I got the gist, your post is a bit hard to comprehend. "Are we becoming too sensible to where something that innocent can be portrayed as something so bad?"

 

[axia777]

Schools will be schools.....

I got sent home once because I had a mohawk. They classified it as a gang thing. The fuck?

You can't be serious. What? Do they think there are Punker gangs now? What a load of crap. That school was just being dicks for no other reason.

 

[VitalSigns]

Thats ridiculous. I had a couple FCUK shirts I wore at school no one said anything to me. People need to loosen up and the concept of the "Bad Word" needs to be eliminated. Bad intentions are what schools need to be monitoring.

EDIT* also, I had a lip-ring (currently just a stud, grew out of the ring) and they told me I had to take it out because it would distract the other students, I laughed and switched schools at the end of the year.

 

[tomtom94]

The only reason - and I mean the ONLY reason - for cotton wool-wrapped children is suing.
If we wrap kids up in cotton wool then the parents can't sue.
The children can't cope with society and don't understand pain but on the plus side the government isn't sued.

Children should be allowed to be children, and the only way that can happen is by introducing the concepts of adrenaline and pain.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

I had the police dispatched to my home, to search my room, because I drew a picture of counter-terrorist officers, clearly marked as being part of law enforcement, with guns. Read that sentence as many times as it takes for the stupidity to hit you like a load of bricks.

I was thirteen. Fucking thirteen.

EDIT: It didn't stop with that one incident in just that one school, either. It continued until I eventually dropped out because I was being pestered to death by overzealous administrative officials constantly having me put on observation, just because I brought a "Guns 'n Ammo" magazine to school.

 

[Roamin11]

Thats why university rocks, I wore a T-shirt sayin "Injection is nice, but I would rather be blown" now to people who like sex it sounds sexual, for those who are motor heads they think sex and motors, but it had a picture of a V12 underneath so it was a mix of both

 

[WrongSprite]

The hell? That stands for French Connection United Kingdom doesn't it? Whats innapropriate about that? It's pure coincidence that it's similar to fuck. Should they stop teaching R.E because its the first half of "retard"? Somebody might find it offensive!

 

[Heart of Darkness]

Well, it can't be any worse than swine flu...oh wait.

But seriously, schools do take stuff like that out of proportion. This is why I'm glad I'm out of public high school...

 

[vampirekid.13]

Schools will be schools.....

I got sent home once because I had a mohawk. They classified it as a gang thing. The fuck?

4 yrs ago when i was in school they suspended me for wearing a trenchcoat. i was thoroughly questioned regarding my knowledge and opinion of colombine shooting/mafia.


i lived no where close to colombine and it was years after it happened...i was like "are you serious"

oh! another one was i had a picture of me and my best friend (who was a girl) and we were like 6 or 7 years old about to change my mom snapped the picture, we were in our underwear, it was a really good memory for me, it was confiscated and i was questioned regarding my opinion on child pornography, yet again...i was in the picture, the girl was like 6, i was 6, my mom took the pic and had it in the family photo album...both my parents and the girls parents knew about the pic and they all had a copy,it was adorable...

 

[Lyri]

Schools will be schools.....

I got sent home once because I had a mohawk. They classified it as a gang thing. The fuck?

In England you'd be sent home for "Extreme hairstyles".

I don't know how it is in the rest of the world, but when your parents sign you up to the school they sign a contract, stating that you will stick to whatever rules they have.
So, if they deem that T-shirt as inappropriate then yes, they can send you home for it. The whole point of the FCUK logo is to be just to the left of inappropriate.
I can see why a school wouldn't allow it, you'll just have to deal with it.

 

[hortez the champion of the frozen wastes]

I've sort of given up on the school system. I mean I once got sent home for defending myself after some butch girl smashed my head against a metal pole? And what happened to her you might ask? Nothing. She didn't even get called to the office.

 

[Swaki]

thats just how it works, i remember in my young days i got send home for leaving the school to go to the other side where there was a sandwich shop.

also i got kicked out of class for saying to my teacher (who had misspelled saki 3 times) that it was spelled whit a "w".

 

[timmytom1]

Yeah, I think it's getting to the point where people are getting over-protective and overly sensitive. Grow a thicker skin, people. The real world isn't all cupcakes and daisies.

You`ve just completely destroyed my worldview

 

[Xyphon]

Schools will be schools.....

I got sent home once because I had a mohawk. They classified it as a gang thing. The fuck?

You can't be serious. What? Do they think there are Punker gangs now? What a load of crap. That school was just being dicks for no other reason.

I have a record of maybe 6 things the school sent me home for. All of them apparently "gang related".

1st was the mohawk, 2nd was BLUE SHOESTRINGS, 3rd was a red backpack, 4th was because I had a few blue streaks in my hair, 5th was for me wearing BLUE CAMO and 6th was because I had reading glasses with a blue tinted frame.

To this day, I wish the school would get bombed.

 

[electric_warrior]

kid at my school came in with a t-shirt that said "i hate, spicks, wops, degos, paki's, chinks, gooks, ni**ers and racists"
he wasn't sent ome or anything

don't hold it against me that i asterisked the two g's, i don't want to get banned

 

[hortez the champion of the frozen wastes]

I had the police dispatched to my home, to search my room, because I drew a picture of counter-terrorist officers, clearly marked as being part of law enforcement, with guns. Read that sentence as many times as it takes for the stupidity to hit you like a load of bricks.

I was thirteen. Fucking thirteen.

EDIT: It didn't stop with that one incident in just that one school, either. It continued until I eventually dropped out because I was being pestered to death by overzealous administrative officials constantly having me put on observation, just because I brought a "Guns 'n Ammo" magazine to school.

Wow...what complete morons...