are we blowing stuff out of proportion

[Wadders]

It was a bit of a jump from no denim to totalitarian state, but, the no denim was just me saying, I liked my school uniform.

The totalitarian country statement comes from many other "politically correct" things to do, say, wear, etc. etc. and that people are punished more for doing things politically incorrect than say stealing. The government is really hammering home the "you will conform or else" way of life, and what's worse is we as a population, are just letting them.

EDIT: Wait, sarcasm was detected late, damn it, need sleep.

Ah fair enough, I see your point and I agree for the most part I just used your post as a kind of platform from which to launch my assault on people who hate uniforms

Although I agree that political correctness (when taken to extremes, it can be a good thing in moderation) is not all that great, I wouldn't say that the government want us to "conform" as you put it. That implies they want us all to be the same.

To the contrary, it seems to me that they're pushing for diversity so much that its going the other way and pushing people further apart. They shouldn't babysit different ethnic, social or sexual groups, because its just so patronizing. Its basically telling them that they cant fend for themselves without being protected from the great unwashed who are supposedly out there to offend them, and that they need all these stupid laws or whatever to protect them. I'm sure the vast majority of the "minorities" couldn't give a fuck.

School systems are one of the main sources of the pussification of the world. Back in 9th grade I got threatened with a suspension for wearing an NRA shirt. Now rules state you can't have guns on your shirt but all it said was NRA. Looked like one of those military work out shirts that say "Army" or "Air Force."

So yes, people are making this world too soft, and it disgusts me.

Precisely. My college PC network blocked all websites with any references to guns. I couldn't even browse UK Gun Room (like eBay but for guns in the UK) in my free lessons. Anger ensued...

 

[Tossth Esalad]

Reading through this thread, I just gotta say: man, I'm glad I live in a liberal european country.

The only incident I can think of, was back in high school, where i wore a t-shirt that said "F.B.I: Federal Boob Inspector", and my history teacher, who's in his fiftys, commented on its awesomeness. That's it...

 

[UnkeptBiscuit]

...Someone in my grade got expelled for doing pull-ups on the light.

Does that count?

 

[shwnbob]

Schools will be schools.

 

[DanielPowell33]

my school dosent allow holes in clothes, even the smallest ones will get you in trouble,even if they were caused at school....so yea

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

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.

... Woah. No seriously [i/]woah[/i] I thought my school was sheltered because we had a lockdown due to a picture of a kid being circulated on the internet of him and a rifle, in TEXAS (I'm in California)

I was stuck in the bathroom for [i/]two hours[/i].

 

[FeralPhantom]

Schools do overreact a tad too much,

In my schools your not allowed to wear any form hat/hood because it could be a gang sign (I live in a small town in the south of the U.S.), One kid actually got sent to the principles office and then suspended for a week for wearing a COWBOY HAT.

 

[Ginnipe]

I don't think he should have been sent home but I don't know what FCUK means.

But I wouldn't be complaining if I got sent home for that, your missing school.

 

[Ancientgamer]

Sensibillities are in general just being thrown out of whack these days. Society is much] more raunchy and abrasive than ever before. At the same time, people against such stuff are now constantly clicking to red alert for anything that moves. Both sides are driving the other deeper into the hole.

 

[Xyphon]

Schools will be schools.....

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

I dunno, I'd have sent you home for bad taste in hairstyles.

All joking aside, yes, this country (America) needs to get the fuck over itself. All of the indignities we pride ourselves on fighting would disappear the second we stop looking for them.

I was experimenting! Plus, I didn't like how my mom just left me with virtually no hair whatsoever, so I told her to leave a strip in the middle. xD

 

[SilverZ]

Schools will be schools.....

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

Yes.. Apparently schools are still stuck in the 80's, where thugs wear leather jackets and mohawks, and beat people with bicycle chains..

... hey i love beating people up with a nice heavy chain. and my leather jacket is nice too. but the schools really need to stuff it up their hairy bums

 

[cobra_ky]

i'll be honest, it was years before i found out FCUK was a store and not just an anagram.

 

[KarumaK]

You know how some people recommend writing a letter to vent your anger? Schools apparently don't like it when it's done in list format.

On the uniform point, my high school was a navy or white polo with khakis.

The have rules for every garment of clothing except shoes, and they were thinking on that when I graduated.

 

[asinann]

It's not appropriate in school because it wouldn't be appropriate in the workplace. People get fired for wearing too much cologne/perfume, so why wouldn't kids get sent home for wearing something controversial?

School is there for kids to learn, not make controversial statements. Save that for when you go out on the weekends.

If people get fired for wearing too much cologne/perfume, that is just as bad, actually worse. If someone is wearing to much, just tell them. If they don't stop, threaten to shorten their lunch break or something, but firing them is just way to much.

Until someone goes into an asthma attack from walking through the cloud they left behind fifteen minutes later and dies. The reason people get fired is because most workplaces now have a no perfume/cologne rule no because too much is offensive, but even in small amounts, it can kill people that are allergic.

 

[asinann]

It's not appropriate in school because it wouldn't be appropriate in the workplace. People get fired for wearing too much cologne/perfume, so why wouldn't kids get sent home for wearing something controversial?

School is there for kids to learn, not make controversial statements. Save that for when you go out on the weekends.

EDIT: On a side note, there was a kid who cross dressed and he came to school several times dress like a woman, and no authority figure said anything to him. I guess it's all about where you grow up.

Yes, well, while the whole theory of "School is here to learn" is kinda ruined by the fact that the schools flip out about random bullshit, and send you home! When you are suspended or sent home, how the hell are you learning? Especially if you are sent home as this guy was

School is meant for learning. Not just for the kid who got sent home, but for every other kid in the school. The school was trying to protect their other however many thousand students while punishing that one who made a bad decision. If that one kid would like to join his friends in class again, he won't make the same bad decision.

uniforms are cool because teachers taht dont like you cant interpret things the way they chose to and send you home for no reason.

thats like saying that someone cant wear a t-shirt with a kickflip off a roof that said "sick" at the bottom to express the awesomeness of it because its 1 letter away from saying dick.

how about we ban the word "shot" in school because its 1 letter away from shit.

or beach because it sounds like *****.


see...you cant because its stupid. theres nothing at all wrong w/ having fcuk on ur tshirt in a learning environment.

F.C.U.K. is and acronym, shot and sick are words. Common words used constantly in the English language. The teacher may not have ever heard of FCUK in their lives, I hadn't until this thread.
In the end though, the school is in the right. Anything that has a chance to disrupt class is enough to get you taken out of school for a few days. It's plain as day in your student handbooks or on whatever they give you to show you the rules. Deal with it.

ps sorry about the double.

But you want to top it all off, an 8 year old kid was expelled (in October)for texting ;P at someone because the teacher thought it was "sexual harassment." The parents took it to the school board who upheld the expulsion, and the local courts who also upheld it. It took a state appeals court to get the kid back into school, at least the parents sued for legal fees later and got that out of the county courts.